The Ballad of the Bandit Queen

Corridors of Ascent(Phoolan Devi)

From prisoner to Parliament, her ascent shook the foundations of an establishment unprepared for the power of the dispossessed. She walked the sandstone corridors not as a polished politician but as the living consequence of a nation’s failures. Loved by the poor, condemned by the powerful, she carried into politics the ghosts of the ravines — ghosts that refused to stay silent.