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
It was hard to explain to those young men why i was so moved. Was it because they had saved a life? was it because the child had come so close to dying? or was i weeping for those other babies? girls, all of them, who had been thrown away or murdered, in the 30 years i have been following this story. The woman confessing to killing newborn baby girls, dharmi devi, is a midwife. And she was not the only one. I shot this footage nearly 30 years ago. I was a young reporter back then, hungry for stories. I had heard about a case of infanticide in katihar, close to my hometown, so i set off into the villages of bihar to see if it was true. Were baby girls still being killed at birth? at the time, almost all babies in rural bihar were born at home. So, i began by talking to the women who delivered them. The midwives. What i found then still shocks me. Hakiya was the first of the midwives to speak plainly on camera. Hakiya is talking about upper caste families. The midwives came almost entire
It was hard to explain to those young men why i was so moved. Was it because they had saved a life? was it because the child had come so close to dying? or was i weeping for those other babies? girls, all of them, who had been thrown away or murdered, in the 30 years i have been following this story. The woman confessing to killing newborn baby girls, dharmi devi, is a midwife. And she was not the only one. I shot this footage nearly 30 years ago. I was a young reporter back then, hungry forstories. I had heard about a case of infanticide in katihar, close to my hometown, so i set off into the villages of bihar to see if it was true. Hakiya is talking about upper caste families. The midwives came almost entirely from the lower castes. They often told me they did not want to kill baby girls. But refusing orders from these families was unthinkable. After hakiya spoke up, other midwives found the courage to tell their stories. Rani was the next to confess. Of all the midwives, she looked
It was hard to explain to those young men why i was so moved. Was it because they had saved a life? was it because the child had come so close to dying? or was i weeping for those other babies? girls, all of them, who had been thrown away or murdered, in the 30 years i have been following this story. The woman confessing to killing newborn baby girls, dharmi devi, is a midwife. And she was not the only one. I shot this footage nearly 30 years ago. I was a young reporter back then, hungry forstories. I had heard about a case of infanticide in katihar, close to my hometown, so i set off into the villages of bihar to see if it was true. Were baby girls still being killed at birth? at the time, almost all babies in rural bihar were born at home. So, i began by talking to the women who delivered them. The midwives. What i found then still shocks me. Hakiya was the first of the midwives to speak plainly on camera. Hakiya is talking about upper caste families. The midwives came almost entirel
And its been a fiery the majority of polls are suggesting that harris outperformed trump. Both teams have declared victory. The Harris Campaign is instantly called for a second debate. Us pollster Frank Luntz said the debate was not Donald Trumps finest hour. Its not that harris won, its that Donald Trump lost, that on several occasions, he spoke in language and with ideas that people who were watching were just simply shocked. The idea that some communities are eating their dogs and cats because they have no food. The idea of whos controlling the media, the concept of the corruption that trump claimed, even going back to the year 2000, 2020, and still pushing the idea that he was robbed of an election that he won. It was not a good night for him. He was off message. His strongest issue, inflation, he constantly was given the opportunity to speak about it, but he chose to talk about other issues. Frankly, i was shocked. Its been 2008, and Sarah Palin was the last national candidate who