Pink Sari Revolution - Hardcover

Amana Fontanella-Khan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 938261608X ISBN 13: 9789382616085

Publisher: Picador India, 2013

Synopsis

Sampat Devi Pal, raised in India's notoriously corrupt Uttar Pradesh region, was married off around the age of thirteen, had her first child at fifteen, and is essentially illiterate. Yet she has risen to become the fierce and courageous founder and commander in chief of India's infamous Pink Gang, a 20,000-member women's vigilante group fighting for the rights of women in India. In narrating the riveting story of the Pink Gang's work on behalf of a young girl unlawfully imprisoned at the hands of an abusive politician, journalist Amana Fontanella-Khan explores the origins and tactics of a fiery sisterhood that has grown to twice the size of the Irish army. Merging courtroom drama, compelling personal history, and a triumphant portrait of grassroots organizing, Pink Sari Revolution offers a refreshing counternarrative to stories of American intervention in the third world by highlighting the extraordinary work of women who are shaking things up within their own country.

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Review:

An inspiring profile... highly recommended for all applicable collections.

Riveting, inspiring, and relevant . A fast-paced, powerful, and sympathetic portrait of a victim and her subaltern champion in the dusty heart of northern India.--Meenakshi Venkat"

A powerful, engrossing portrait of one woman s fight for female empowerment in India. Sampat Pal s extraordinary courage will inspire you, delight you, and fill you with hope.--Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay s Dance Bars"

An inspiring profile highly recommended for all applicable collections."

This beautifully rendered book is a call to women everywhere to take the world into your hands, to rise and resist.--Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and In the Body of the World

A fine tribute to a remarkable woman, a close look at an India that still exists beneath the economic boom of recent years, and a rousing reminder that formidable will can make a difference.

A nuanced humanizing portrait of a teenage-mother-turned-social-crusader who is loud, boastful and blessed with a wicked sense of humor.--John McMurtrie

With her usual deep reporting, humane storytelling, clarity of explanation, and wry humor, Fontanella-Khan brings to life a group of women who have overcome origins and odds most of us can not even imagine to create a movement that might very well change India--and the West's image of what it means to be a woman in the Third World.--Hanna Rosin, author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

Riveting, inspiring, and relevant.... A fast-paced, powerful, and sympathetic portrait of a victim and her subaltern champion in the dusty heart of northern India.--Meenakshi Venkat

A powerful, engrossing portrait of one woman's fight for female empowerment in India. Sampat Pal's extraordinary courage will inspire you, delight you, and fill you with hope.--Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

Having interviewed the principals and reviewed available newspaper accounts, Fontanella-Khan brings a novelist's pacing to a timely page-turner that is essentially political; party politics, political corruption, and the wretched treatment of rape victims are her true subjects.

About the Author:

Amana Fontanella-Khan is a contributor to Slate, the Daily Beast, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor, and was formerly a contributing editor at Vogue India. Previously based in Mumbai, she now lives in Brussels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador India
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 938261608X
• ISBN 13: 9789382616085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304