The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

28 February, 2021

The Good Girls

An Ordinary Killing

Sonia Faleiro

In this book, the author Sonia Faleiro revisits the horrific murder of two teenaged girls from Katra Sadatganj, in Badaun, in 2014. Drawing on over a hundred interviews, it examines the girls’ lives and how caste, honour codes and political pressures defined how the case unfurled.

Penguin Random House India, Rs 599, 352 pages