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Writer Mala Sen speaks about her book ' Bandit Queen. She says "I came to India about a week ago because my publishers in London are planning to reprint the book and they wanted me to update it because the last edition of the book ends with her in jail 'with Phoolan Devi in jail' and now that she's out. It's another chapter really. Its start with her as a child and the land disputes that involved her father which involved her, her child marriage and then it goes through her entire life until the point that she surrenders and until the time she goes to jail. Well in the book 'Bandit Queen' it starts not with her as a bandit but from a childhood really about her child marriage, about the trauma that she followed after that but when she was kidnapped by the dacoit gang, her transition from b
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