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Digging into the 2014 Badaun rape and murder case, Sonia Faleiro found a different story altogether, a story that predates the victims’ lives
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Digging into the 2014 Badaun rape and murder case, Sonia Faleiro found a different story altogether, a story that predates the victims’ lives
Goa-born, London-based author and journalist Sonia Faleiro is out with her second book of reportage,
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, which was released last month in India. Combining reportage with the narrative skills of a fiction writer,
The Good Girls documents the 2014 gang rape and murder of two minors in Katra Sadatganj an “eyeblink of a village” in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun district where land is power, security and identity. And where a girl’s life is “everyone’s business”. In Katra Sadatganj and its neighbouring hamlets, honour killings are common girls are killed for marrying outside their caste, religion,