Rani Khanna

Amazons in Saris

Rani Khanna

A 2001 study shows that more than half of the 80 million Dalit women in India experience violence and abuse in their daily lives, primarily from dominant caste males. When French-Indian filmmaker Rani Khanna came across an image of a group of Dalit women in Bihar, who had embarked on an armed struggle against their oppressors, she was struck by their resistance and embarked on a quest to find them.