The year in places

Khajuri Khas In September, five girls were killed in a stampede on the staircase of a senior secondary government school in this east Delhi locality, bringing the apathy that stalks government schools in sharp focus.

Khajuri Khas
In September, five girls were killed in a stampede on the staircase of a senior secondary government school in this east Delhi locality, bringing the apathy that stalks government schools in sharp focus. What’s worse, the injured girls claimed the stampede had occurred after schoolboys molested them

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Garhi Chowkhandi
In January, a young couple met tragedy in this dusty village right next to Noida’s flashy cocoon of market growth and urban enterprise. Eleven young men from the village, returning from a game of cricket, took turns to gangrape the MBA student and beat up her friend when he tried to resist. The village elders thought nothing was wrong with their boys, “who had seen something fishy going on and reacted...”