Nots & Crosses is a graphic novel, illustrating the biography of Phoolan Devi (1963-2001), who was also known as the Queen Bandit of India, and is portrayed as the reincarnation of Ching Shih (1775-1844), the most dreaded female pirate of China. This narrative features re-contextualized and thought provoking quotes by famous personalities on the lives of these women, illuminating the issues pertaining to oppression and how the notion of being powerful and strong, somehow, came to mean “To be tough and brutal like a man.”
The title “Nots & Crosses” is based on how girls are not supposed to act a certain way and all the obstructions and barriers faced by these women, this is what the “Nots” represent and the crosses are for how they crossed over these prejudices and defined their own path despite of being restricted and told not to.
OUT OF THE SILENCE WE HEARD SCREECHING THROUGH A POWERFUL HAILER. IT
WAS SHRI RAM’S VOICE, ECHOING IN THE RAVINES.
you think you can
get me, mustakim?!
me, shri ram the
thakur, you and your
muslim pigs!
and you balwan, a
shepherd, a caste of
shit! we have already
given you one
lesson and now you
want another?!
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