About a week and half ago, I began researching on cigarettes brands for a story. I was surprised to know that nearly eighty to ninety per cent of retail convenience stores (most commonly referred to as Pan and bidi shops) buy international brands of cigarettes from smugglers. Last week end, when I went mobile shopping with my friend to a market where nearly forty shops sell cheap, smuggled mobile phones  something started bothering me. As I read about the 1993 bomb blasts court proceedings, I realised what it was ….Smuggled Goods… Read the rest of this entry »