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Taliban shooting survivor speaks in 'I Am Malala'

London:  A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan, thinking about calculus and chemistry, Justin Bieber songs and “Twilight” movies.Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist

India TV News Desk Updated on: October 08, 2013 20:27 IST


In the hospital she enjoys the “Shrek” movies, but is shocked by the scene in “Bend it Like Beckham” when the female soccer players take off their jerseys to reveal sports bras.

She reads “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”—sent to her by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown—and identifies with Dorothy, trying to get home.

Malala goes to school in England now, and lives with her family in a house behind a big gate in the city of Birmingham. It reminds her a bit of being under house arrest.

The Malala Fund set up in her name campaigns for girls' education around the world.

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