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The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
4.0
The image of the two girls Katra girls hanging from a tree was so strong that despite being an event in rural India, it received country-wide attention. The Anubhav Sinha movie Article 15 that was based on multiple real-life incidents had this haunting image as one of its important shots. The author Sonia Faleiro goes to Katra village, interviews the villagers, relatives, doctors, policemen and in the process reveals information that is a direct indictment of the Indian patriarchal and its policing system.
Suffice to say that the expectation of a sinister plot, political involvement, caste dynamics that we would otherwise expect from a fictional thriller is turned on its head and the reveal is an anti-climax of sorts. It reminded me of the movie Ugly , where a seemingly simple explanation for the death is further complicated by the incompetency of the investigating team.
The chapters are very brief, providing a quick thriller-like proceedings, with the author frequently digressing to larger topics relevant to India. She also notes some important cases of the past that has paved way for changes in the criminal system to atleast . Some of them are:
• 1972, a teenager Mathura was assaulted in Maharashtra got acquitted. Law professors wrote to CJI which made consent as the presumption.
• 1992, Bhanwari Devi, raped by group of Gujjars who were acquitted and it led to Vishaka guidelines.
An important documentation of the callousness of the justice system.
Suffice to say that the expectation of a sinister plot, political involvement, caste dynamics that we would otherwise expect from a fictional thriller is turned on its head and the reveal is an anti-climax of sorts. It reminded me of the movie Ugly , where a seemingly simple explanation for the death is further complicated by the incompetency of the investigating team.
The chapters are very brief, providing a quick thriller-like proceedings, with the author frequently digressing to larger topics relevant to India. She also notes some important cases of the past that has paved way for changes in the criminal system to atleast . Some of them are:
• 1972, a teenager Mathura was assaulted in Maharashtra got acquitted. Law professors wrote to CJI which made consent as the presumption.
• 1992, Bhanwari Devi, raped by group of Gujjars who were acquitted and it led to Vishaka guidelines.
An important documentation of the callousness of the justice system.