December 2011
13 posts
Sampat Pal Devi and the Gulabi Gang
from: Sampat Pal Devi: The Guardian, Top 100 Women)
Dressed in pink saris and wielding bamboo sticks, the Gulabi gang are an all-women vigilante force, and their warrior leader is Devi. The daughter of a shepherd, she taught herself to read and write. When she was 12, she was married to an ice-cream seller and by 20, she had five children. One day in her village in Uttar Pradesh, one of the...
