Phoolan Dewi

heys all, so, what have I been doing lately?
I've been reading. I read twilight and a super duper real history on a super woman. Phoolan Dewi. It made me cry.
The awesome biography of her is entitled, "I, PHOOLAN DEWI"
Super story and really real. A story on the social status of women, caste and abuse, injustice and corruption. She went through all the worst. Very inspiring to me and my favourite book :) there's a lot of Courage and Will to continue on with each breath. My super hero/heroin! She's got all my respect.

Phoolan Devi was born into a poor, low-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, living in a world that gave more respect to a stray dog than to a woman. At 11, she was married off and endured beatings, rapes and persecution. She survived being kidnapped by bandits and became one of them, learning how to shoot like a man. She also found love for the first time, but her lover was brutally murdered. Without his protection, she was paraded naked through villages and gang-raped; but she survived and for three years claimed retribution for herself and all low-caste women, before negotiating her own surrender. After 11 years in prison, she is now free to tell her own story.

"What others called a crime, I called Justice" Phoolan Dewi

A female Robin Hood, a modern day count of Monte Cristo -Phoolan Devi, the notorious Bandit queen of India, has become a living legend. Enduring cruel poverty and degradation, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation of an abusive marriage, the savage killing of her bandit-lover and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign which rocked the government, she delivered justice to the rape victims and stole from the rich to give to the poor, before negotiating surrender on her own terms. Throughout her years of imprisonment without trial Phoolan Devi remained a beacon of hope for the poor and downtrodden, and in 1996, midst both popular support and media controversy, she was elected to the Indian Parliament.
For over a decade journalists, biographers and film-makers
have found the power and scope of Phoolan Devi's
myth irresistible. Now finally she tells the story of her life
through her eyes and in her own voice.
'A stunning tale, and all the more amazing for being true.
It will make you cry, it will also make you cheer'

For more info on Phoolan Dewi, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoolan_Devi