Nalin Mehta is the author of 'The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World's Largest Political Party'. He is former Executive Editor, TOI-Online. An award-winning social scientist, journalist and ...
Phoolan Devi's story starts in Sheikhpur Guda, where experienced fact, myth, and memory converge, rather than in folklore. In an effort to demonstrate respect, the ghoongat is raised off her statue.
It’s hard to imagine a time when Phoolan Devi was not an icon. Ever since news spread in the early 1980s about the “Bandit Queen”, the only woman dacoit in the Chambal Valley, Phoolan has made the ...
Following her death, Phoolan Devi has been becoming a part of the political, cultural, and social memory repository of the Nishad community. Phoolan Devi was married at the age of eleven. Enduring ...
New Delhi: The last time Phoolan Devi saw Vikram Mallah alive, they were lying next to each other in the Chambal ravines. A gunshot split the night. She reached for the rifles, thinking the police had ...
Phoolan Devi has many images. Many feel she was a criminal while for numerous others she was a rebel who avenged the humiliation meted out to her. Whatever you portray her but the fact was that ...
One of India's most famous insurgents, Phoolan Devi has a fascinating story, one slice of which forms the basis of Richie Mehta's "Phoolan." Based partially on Devi's autobiography "I, Phoolan," Mehta ...
Nalin Mehta is the author of 'The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World's Largest Political Party'. He is former Executive Editor, TOI-Online. An award-winning social scientist, journalist and ...