Varanasi: A Bandit Queen, a murderer, a parliamentarian or a cultural icon – bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi cannot be put in any one of these categories. But one thing on which many would agree ...

Phoolan Devi died 23 years ago. Like many survivors of sexual assault, reduced to epithets or hashtags, she too was defined by the most heinous incident in her life. But unlike most, she was much more ...

Phoolan Devi’s life, as dramatized in the movie “The Bandit Queen,” was an extraordinarily violent Indian Cinderella story. But when the laws of probability finally caught up with Devi outside her New ...

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 ...

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 ...

43 years after Phoolan Devi & gang killed 20, one gets life term After 43 years, a court in Kanpur sentenced one accused to life imprisonment in the Behmai massacre case. 'Bandit Queen' Phoolan Devi ...

My name is Phoolan Devi, people know me as the ‘Bandit Queen.’ And I didn’t know that after so much struggle, I would survive. And that today I would also reach among all of you, that I would receive ...

A demand was made in the Lok Sabha that all cases against Samajwadi Party member Phoolan Devi be withdrawn. Phoolan Devi herself was sitting in protest outside the House after cases against her were ...

NEW DELHI: A court here convicted Sher Singh Rana for killing bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi while observing that he was on the run after the July 2001 crime and was impersonating as someone ...