{"id":583,"date":"2013-04-29T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/04\/the-gulabi-gang-pink-indians.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:36:35","slug":"the-gulabi-gang-pink-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/04\/the-gulabi-gang-pink-indians.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gulabi Gang &#8211; Pink Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EXwH-kjSUSs\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>The Gulabi Gang are pink sari wearing women in India who brandish big sticks and go after corrupt public officials and boorish men. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/7068875.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to this BBC news article,<\/a> they come from India\u2019s northern Uttar Pradesh state\u2019s Banda area. The leader is Sampat Pal Devi, who was married at 12, and is now fighting the system with like minded women. She describes her goals like this: \u201cWe aim to empower women, promote child education with an emphasis on girls, and stop corruption and domestic violence.\u201d<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/life-style\/general\/india-s-gulabi-gang-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with-1.1155184\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here\u2019s a very good story about Sampat and the Gulag Gang<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/flux-pink-indians-v15n2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here is another<\/a>. \u00a0Hind Makki tweeted a picture of the Gulabi Gang which prompted me to look them up.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulabi Gang are pink sari wearing women in India who brandish big sticks and go after corrupt public officials and boorish men. According to this BBC news article, they come from India\u2019s northern Uttar Pradesh state\u2019s Banda area. The leader is Sampat Pal Devi, who was married at 12, and is now fighting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Gulabi Gang - Pink Indians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gulabi Gang are pink sari wearing women in India who brandish big sticks and go after corrupt public officials and boorish men. 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