Hakiya was the first of the midwives to speak plainly on camera. After hakiya spoke up, other midwives found the courage to tell their stories. In the 90s, anila kumari ran an ngo that worked with the midwives. Encouraged by the training they had received, this small group of midwives saved at least five baby girls. Medha was working in patna, documenting cases of infanticide. She helped send at least one of those babies to an adoption agency in pune. Laughs nervously we were on our way to meet monica. Medha remembers that before she was adopted and called monica by her new parents, the baby had a different name a name that began with kosi. The adoption agency would not let us look at the records, so we can never know for sure. But this girl s origins in patna, her approximate date of birth and the name kosi point to the same conclusion. In all probability, monica is one of the girls rescued by anila and the midwives. Since the day i came home, it was never kept a secret. Whatever t
Hakiya was the first of the midwives to speak plainly on camera. After she spoke up, other midwives found the courage to tell their stories. In the 90s, this would work for an ngo that worked with the midwives and encouraged by the training they had received, this small group of midwives saved at least five baby girls. We were working in partnership, documenting cases of infanticide. She helped save at least one of those babies and centre to an adoption agency in pune. We were on our way to meet monica. Medha remembers that before she was adopted and called monica by her new parents, the baby had a different name a name that began with kosi. The adoption agency would not let us look at the records, so we can never know for sure. But this girl s origins in patna, her approximate date of birth and the name kosi point to the same conclusion. Monica. In all probability, monica is one of the girls rescued by anila and the midwives. Since the day i came home, it was never kept a secret. Wh