…adventures of a solo woman of a certain age
Mitu Khurana is a woman fighting to save her daughters.
I will never understand how a country where the spirituality celebrates the female Divine in the forms of Durga, Kali, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and many other goddesses, allows this to happen. Shakti power and the dichotomy that is India.
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Female Genocide in India and the 50 Million Missing Campaign
…and so many things I hate: Sex selection in India.
“In a culture that predominantly views girls as an expense rather than an asset, women are put under intense pressure to produce sons.The trend for smaller families is also deepening the aversion to daughters, with the use of ultrasound technology now being used to plan families. This is despite the existence of laws banning prenatal sex detection and sex selective abortion.
ActionAid has also found that girls are more likely to be born but less likely to survive in areas with more limited access to public health services and modern ultrasound technology. In rural Morena and Dhaulpur, deliberate neglect of girls, including allowing the umbilical cord to become infected, is used as a way to dispose of unwanted daughters.”
Without knowledge, millions more women will go missing in India. Thank you, Barbara.
