Dabung Girl

Dabung Girl (Hindi: दबंग गर्ल) is a fictional, Indian comic book superhero character. Dabung Girl is an Indian adolescent girl superhero focusing on breaking gender stereotypes.^[1]^[2]^[3] She was created by life skills educationist Saurabh Agarwal.^[4] Dabung Girl’s stories are presented as a comic book series.^[5]^[6]^[7] The word Dabung means ‘fearless’ in English.^[8]

Key characters

Tara/Dabung Girl: Dabung Girl aka Tara is a regular village girl. Tara transforms herself into Dabung Girl by saying Kavooom!!!^[9]
SuperAvni (aka Maya): Tara’s elder sister.^[2]
Purple Flame (aka Riya): Dabung Girl’s friend, who is also a superhero and has dyslexia.^[10]

Awards and recognition


Year	Title
2021	Winner of Social Media for Empowerment Award (SM4E) for child protection community campaign^[11]
2021	Winner of best emerging comic book series for children at CBAM Awards by AnimationXpress^[12]
2020	Social Impact Design Award at Design Leadership Summit by IAMAI^[13]
	Gather Fellowship for Social Impact, Seeds of Peace
	Nomination for Best Children Illustrated Book of the Year, ComicCon^[14]
	Dabung Girl supported a design challenge, to solve social problem, in 2020 in partnership with Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and UNICEF^[15]

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