If I must force myself to blog today, a zillion issues come to my mind. But the things that bother me the most are related to the society we live in. Female foeticide, something that happens all around us, something that is so deplorable and yet practised far and wide, day in and day out. People kill their unborn child for many reasons but to kill someone simply because it is not of the desired sex?? Technology has only made one difference in this heinous crime, earlier people waited to see what was the sex of the newborn child and god forbid if it were a girl, she was either drowned in water or simply choked to death. Today however, thanks to modern machinery and our capable doctors, all this can be taken care of even before the girl child gets to see the day of light.
I have to wonder, all the wannabe doctors today, how many more of them are ready to commit the same crime for a handful of money. Of course, no one wonders even for a minute that had their own mother been killed in the same manner, they would not even exist. I once read a very interesting book that I had borrowed from the British Council Library. Unfortunately I do not recollect its name. It was a story set in the future where no child had been born in almost 40/50 years. People could see civilisation coming to an end. A dark tale indeed. But looking at the way people are hell bent on favoring the male child, it does not seem that unrealistic or unimaginable, that dark story just might become reality some day.
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You know of course, why female infanticide is still practised in India. It's because the girl child is still seen as a burden to be carried by the majority of Indians. And if we think that this only happens in small villages, we are only deluding ourselves.
I don't know when these people will be enlightened.
Also, ahve you watched "Matrubhumi"? That is a really disturbing movie.
Hi Pheonix, yes I am well aware that this practise is carried out in almost every strata of society and not just the lower classes. My best friend is expecting soon, on one of her visits she got talking to one of the nurses at the clinic and was told that women, even upto the full term of pregnancy, go to unbelievable lengths to terminate it if they find out its a girl. Hard to believe but its true. And this coming from our own metropolitan city. I saw Matrubhoomi, indeed it was disturbing. Until and unless people don't stop seeing the girl child as a burden, this is not going to stop. There are other factors too, like people believe their sons will take care of them in old age, carry on the family name and all that jazz.
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