Q.195

In the 90s, this lady served as the MLA (Janata Dal) for the Kutiyana constituency in Porbandar, Gujarat. She recently died due to a heart ailment. In some ways, why would she be considered the female equivalent of a person who migrated to the US from Italy in the last years of the nineteenth century, and who took his last name from his hometown? Image: Rediff

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This is Santokben Jadeja, who was known to be one of the few female heads of an Indian underworld gang. In 1999, a film named "Godmother" based on her life made her famous. The other 'person' in the question is of course Don Vito Corleone, who became the fictional character 'The Godfather'.