Phoolan Devi was assassinated on July 25 2001 by Sher Singh Rana Even after death, her fame grew. For the poor she was a savior who looted the rich to help the poor Her first gang's leader, Babu ...

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated February 28, 1983) The whole sequence had a touch of the charade, as if a carefully-planned rehearsal had gone awry on the ...

For most kids growing up in North India, the word dacoit, or bandit, usually evoked two infamous figures. The first was the fictional character of Gabbar Singh, from the 1975 curry-western Sholay. And ...