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 ...

Phoolan Devi was married at the age of eleven. Enduring abuse, she was eventually forced to join a gang of dacoits. Accused in the 1981 Behmai killings, she surrendered in February 1983, in front of ...