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Born into the grinding poverty of a lower-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, she was married off to a widower at age 11 who beat and tortured her. She ran away from him but was shunned by her village elders, and spent her early teenage years in the violent world...
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 Delhi home on Tuesday, its fairytale ending was rewritten. The film helped propel the brutalized teenager-turned...
There was some suggestion that her assassination may have been rooted in political intrigue, with Devi set to play a key role in the lower-caste Samajwadi Party's bid to win control of Uttar Pradesh in state elections later this year. But many Indian commentators suspected her death may...
The system works. Since it was set up last year, 40,000 people have used Gyandoot to check out produce prices, sell land or cattle or get official documents. Gattu Lal, 65, applied online for his grandson's caste certificate, which guarantees school admission and a scholarship. Within a week...
For two decades, Beijing has lured Taiwanese investment to its shores hoping to make the island more economically beholden, and it's a strategy that has worked. In the 1980s, Taiwan's entire sneaker industry ignored a Taipei-imposed ban on investment, laced itself up and moved to the mainland...