India's Untouchables Find Their Tongue by Peter Byrne http://www.swans.com/library/art16/pbyrne128.html India's Untouchables regularly splash across the Western glossies for a quick exposé between ads for exotic cruises and gourmet coffee. This was the case of Italy's Il Venerdi in May. The piece had all the requisites. It was about brutalized women who got together not only for self defense, but in order to fight back. They even armed themselves with bamboo lathi, a cruel weapon favored by the Indian police. To finish the picture -- and what photographs it made! -- they wore luminous magenta saris and called their vigilante group the Pink Gang