“And not one politician, they said, not even one of their own, had come to see them, never mind offer them assistance of any sort…. “Their lives had been dismantled,” writes Faleiro, a sympathetic yet unrelenting investigator. The principal suspects were members of a low caste. Consequently, the village was swept up in a vortex of contending views on religion, caste, gender roles, women’s rights, and other thorny issues, all cogently explored by the author. An autopsy was inconclusive, but it seemed likely that the girls had been raped. Not long after, they were found hanging from a tree. In the summer of 2014, two teenagers, whom Faleiro calls Padma and Lalli, left their homes in the countryside of Uttar Pradesh, walking to a nearby orchard. A modern-day Rashomon that offers multiple views of the widely publicized deaths of two young women in rural India.
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