She is a school teacher, an adivasi activist and thinker. Extreme state persecution and sexual violence by the police forces could not deter Soni from her battle for justice, truth and the rights of her people. She is considered a violated face of Bastar and is counted among the world’s most assertive women indigenous leaders today. Her exoneration in the criminal cases against her by the courts of India has vindicated her position about state brutality against Adivasis under the pretext of fighting left-wing extremism and Maoist forces in the Central India region.