India’s Pink Posse

Banda, a blip on India’s

vast geographic radar, is one of the country’s poorest and most regressive

districts. Located in the heart of the populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, this

3,061 sq km region infested by dacoits, or bandits, invariably makes headlines

for all the wrong reasons – drought, starvation, domestic violence, land-grabbing, killings an…