Interviews
A Midwife’s Confession: Democracy Hasn’t Democratized the Home in India
“How many babies have you killed, roughly?” This is a question that tolls through the 2024 BBC documentary, The Midwife’s Confession. Available for free streaming on YouTube, the documentary centres around Katihar in the Kosi region of Bihar, India. The documentary deals with the outlawed yet prevalent practice of female infanticide. A result of the National-award winning journalist and filmmaker Amitabh Parashar’s twenty-eight-year-long journalistic engagement with the topic in Bihar, the documentary investigates the fraught socio-political terrain informed by gender biases and caste realities that forces the midwives to kill the girl children they help bring to life.
10.02.2026
