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