No single person or institution killed the Badaun girls. I’d say that we all did
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Synopsis London-based journalist and author Sonia Faleiro tells Sharmila Ganesan Ram how she unwound the tangle of differing eyewitness accounts to tell their story in her new book called ‘The Good Girls’.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 14, 2021)
Padma, a 16-year-old given to singing, had just embroidered a parrot with a furry beak. Lalli, her poetry-loving 14-year-old cousin, had always wanted to be “something”. Then, on May 27, 2014, their bodies were found hanging from a tree. The chilling image triggered London-based journalist and author Sonia Faleiro to return to her home country to investigate the callously reported and sloppily investigated tragedy that shook Badaun in UP. The result of repeated visits to the village over four years is a potent new book called ‘The Good Girls’. Faleiro tells Sharmila Ganesan Ram how she unwound the tangle of differing eye