The bad news, and also some rays of hope. The study done by Lancet journal, is being challenged by some groups now, including IMA. They say that the report does not take into consideration, the judgment passed by SC, banning sex selective abortions. IMA(which can and is trying to make a difference by asking the doctors to stop being aids in foeticide) may say stuff like that out of the air, while Lancet, a reputed medical journal, did their homework, by analyzing the fertility figures of 6 million people, to make this report. The researchers say that the girl deficit does not vary according to religion, which is an interesting find, as i had this belief that, muslims who see children as gifts of god, can be counted out. Also it seems that the practice is more rampant among the more prosperous people(study says educated). Like this report from ndtv talks about poor female sex ratio in mandya and maddur which are very prosperous areas in Karnataka. It pains me specially, since i am emotionally attached to mandya, just from the impression that it gives when i pass that town every time i go home by bus. Nice old world buildings, girl students roaming around in cycles, more clean than other towns in the route etc... I will turn my face away the next time.
I remember seeing the movie, Mathrubhoomi- A nation without women, about the future of places where women are being selectively killed, and the incidents depicted in there like one in which, the only woman in the area is chained in the cattle shed, so that she wont escape doesn't look like the future any more. Check the news. They talk about a girl being sold as a bride and kept in chains when she tried to escape.
The rays of hope is linked to news about some religious leaders campaigning to spread awareness against female foeticide. I think it may work good in rural areas, and for the urban we have the soap opera, atmajaa. Nice efforts i should say.
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