It has always been fascinating to hear stories about bandits and somehow a veil of fantasy and imagination has always been a part of the narratives heard by generations like the one I come from. For those of us growing up in the nineties the word daku/bandit was akin to that of characters to be found and read only in books or at the most one heard about the real-life Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi or Veerappan. The distance that has always remained between the real-life baghis and those growing up far away also created a sense of fantasy with regards to these real-life people. It was not until Sujit Saraf's novel The Confession of Sultana Daku (2009) that one turned one's attention back to this section of people.