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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 ....
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 ....
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 t ....