NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old woman strangled her 6-day-old daughter to death, packed her body in a bag, and threw it on the roof of an adjacent building of her house in Delhi’s Khyala area, the police said on Saturday. The woman, identified as Shivani, told the police that she had been facing social stigma for repeatedly giving birth to girls. …
July 14, 2023 02:06 pm | Updated 02:06 pm IST In the 80s and 90s, Usilampatti taluk near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, made bewildering news for its practice of female infanticide. Debutant novelist Rajasree Variyar writes the story of a mother — belonging to a poor Kallar family, the landless community infamous for female infanticide — who is constantly reminded that …
