Lisa Ray, co-star of Amazon Prime's 'Four More Shots Please' series, is lending her voice to 'Phoolan,' an upcoming live-action and animated documentary about Phoolan Devi, India's true-life bandit ...

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 ...

What was the genesis of The Bandit Queens, which explores the themes of poverty, domestic violence, and the caste system in rural India? Author Parini Shroff, who examines patriarchy, casteism and ...

Sheikhpur Gudha looks like a place where the sun has forgotten to rise. Even by the standards of a standard Indian hamlet, it feels gloomy. Buffaloes and goats—hobbling and sauntering from all ...

A quarter century after Shekhar Kapur’s “Bandit Queen” generated a massive worldwide buzz following its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight in 1994, the epochal film’s producer, Bobby Bedi, has firmed up ...

London-based author Mala Sen, who after painstaking research, wrote the biography of Phoolan Devi - India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi - describes Devi's brutal murder as a death ...

Phoolan Devi, once feared as the Bandit Queen, later became a symbol of empowerment for many, especially in the Nishad community. Her journey from Chambal to the corridors of parliament was remarkable ...

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 ...