KANPUR, (IANS) – Fifty-two years after he was charged with the alleged kidnapping of dacoit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi in 1980 and the murder of her paramour, Chheda Singh passed away in Uttar ...
NEW DELHI — Phoolan Devi, the “Bandit Queen” whose fight to avenge discrimination made her a heroine to millions of India’s poor, was shot dead as she came home from her seat in Parliament for lunch ...
NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the death of Phoolan Devi, an Indian woman known throughout her country as "the Bandit Queen." Becoming a folk hero for her championship of lower caste causes, Devi ...