Directed by Nishtha Jain

March 31, 2015 from 6-8pm

Fulton Hall 511 Auditorium

140 Commonwealth Avenue

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

The Gulabi Gang is an extraordinary women’s movement formed in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi in the Banda District of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. This region is one of the poorest districts in the country and is marked by a deeply patriarchal culture, rigid caste divisions, female illiteracy, domestic violence, child labor, child marriages and dowry demands. The women’s group is popularly known as Gulabi or ‘Pink’ Gang because the members wear bright pink saris and wield bamboo sticks. Sampat says, “We are not a gang in the usual sense of the term, we are a gang for justice.” The Gulabi Gang was initially intended to punish oppressive husbands, fathers and brothers, and combat domestic violence and desertion. Gulabi Gang, the award-winning documentary by Nishtha Jain, pulls us into the center of these blazing conflicts, uncovering a complex story, disturbing yet heartening.

Film to be followed with Q&A with Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Boston College.