Mala Sen

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Mala Sen (born June 3, 1947 in Mussoorie , Uttarakhand , † May 21, 2011 ) was an Indian writer , political activist and suffragette .

Life

Mala Sen was born in Mussoorie (Masuri) in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Her parents divorced in 1953 and Mala grew up with her father. As a member of the military, her father often moved with his daughter. In Mumbai she attended Nirmala Niketan College , fell in love and emigrated to London in 1965 . To make a living, Mala Sen worked as a temporary worker. Through her later work as a women's rights activist in connection with the fate of immigrants and textile workers from the Indian subcontinent, she came to writing in the 1960s and later to journalism. She was made aware of Phoolan Devi through press reports on the occasion of research in India . After disputes with Kapur and Phoolan Devi in ​​connection with the filming of Devi's biography, Mala Sen increasingly withdrew from public life. She died on May 21, 2011.

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Mala Sen became internationally known for her biography India's Bandit Queen. The true Story of Phoolan Devi (German: The story of Phoolan Devi. An Indian woman's fate ), which was translated from English into various languages. Shekhar Kapur announced at the first performance of Bandit Queen in India in August 1994 that his feature film was based on Mala Sen's biography of Phoolan Devi. Kapur's final version of the film was made against the will of Phoolan Devi and Mala Sen and was vehemently criticized from various sides, including his excessive portrayal of violence and because of the nude photos and the rapes shown in the film . For example, the writer and feminist Arundhati Roy criticized Kapur's exploitative use of the subject and his ignorance of Phoolan Devi at the film premiere .

Works (incomplete)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ash Kotak: Mala Sen obituary . The Guardian . June 13, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Arundhati Roy : Arundhati Roy on Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen: The Great Indian Rape Trick I . sawnet.org. August 22, 1994. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sawnet.org
  3. ↑ India's «bandit queen» Phoolan Devi killed . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 27, 2001. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy on Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen: The Great Indian Rape-Trick II . sawnet.org. September 23, 1994. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sawnet.org
personal data
SURNAME Sen, Mala
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mussoorie , Uttarakhand
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2011