"I was hired for my religion but I did not use that card," Hussain Zaidi

Hussain Zaidi, whose book Mumbai Avengers has been adapted into the film Phantom, talks of terror, thrillers and chronicling thug life.

Almost five years after terrorists laid siege to Mumbai in November 2008, there seems little good news. The lone surviving gunman has been punished, but the mastermind remains free, the country still at risk from future attacks, and the terror outfit itself is now eclipsed by a more horrific global extremist organisation.