Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen Who Refused to Be Broken

Celebrating Women's History Month with a badass a day.

Phoolan Devi is one of those women who, as I read her story, just left my jaw on the floor. Badass almost feels like a bit of an understatement.

A young girl, born into poverty in rural India, her life already marked by struggle. By the time she was a teenager, she had been married off, abused, and cast aside. But Phoolan Devi wasn’t about to let her st…