THe Gulabi gang

Mits, I watched the programme on TVO Ch 2 too. The founder and head of the Gulabi Gang has noble goals but I detected some manipulating methods she uses. For example, in trying to resolve disputes between an aggrieved wife and her husband and in-laws, she likes to point out that the hurt woman was planning to kill herself in front of a moving train. But the documentary doesn't show all the women saying that. One scene I liked was when the gang leader threatened a father-in-law accused of raping his daughter-in-law. She said something like: "I will take you to the police and see that they give you piss to drink and you will have to pay for that piss too." What a woman!
Another point: The setting is Uttar Pradesh, the home of my great grandfather who migrated to Guyana. I don't think some of those farming villages have changed at all since 1881 when my great grandfather left India. The small mud huts, dusty tracks, etc. I kept wondering whether I still have distant relatives in that region.

Bookman I agree with you. I watched the entire documenatary also... parts of it could have been staged. For some of the women, suicide seems to be their best solution, especially when their own parents turn their backs and a blind eye on them.

She is a very brave woman and her Gulabi gang is growing. More power to her.

While places like Mumbai has changed, these remote farming villages have been frozen in time, where old men still make the laws.

Hey, we might be related, my great grandfather migrated from there too.