Rachel McKibbens: for Jyoti Singh Pandey

Rachel McKibbens: for Jyoti Singh Pandey:

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Her father wants us to know her name. “My daughter did nothing wrong,” he says, and he is right. I wish I could write a letter to this man’s heart, let him know how many of us share his daughter’s name: Jyoti, Hindu for light.

I think of the inevitable language of obituaries: “survived by…