Media reduced Phoolan Devi to a sensational figure—sexualised, dramatised and stripped of structural context. Bandit Queen reinforced the revenge narrative, overshadowing caste realities and political ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucknow: Seventeen years after she died, former bandit queen and then MP, v, is all set to make a “comeback” in the next Lok Sabha elections. Political parties in Uttar Pradesh are keen to revive the ...

"Phoolan Devi was a strong woman. If I were in her place, I would have died enduring what she suffered," said actor Seema Biswas while talking to TOI on Thursday. Seema Biswas remembers co-actor ...