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