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 midwiv ....
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