What difference do a few million missing girls make to a country that has a population of over a billion? This: In rural Punjab, where the shortage of women is most pronounced, a desire to keep rural family holdings intact is now driving a trend towards polyandrous unions where one woman, often ‘purchased’ from poorer [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Female foeticide’
Missing !
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the society, tagged adverse sex ratio, Female foeticide, Female Infanticide, India's missing girls, sex selective abortion, Violence against Women on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What Bhairavi unknowingly did
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the society, tagged Dowry, Dowry Prohibition Act, Female foeticide, Female Infanticide, Violence against Women on September 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It was an eventful night. Bhairavi became a bride. Along with her, her weight in gold crossed the threshold of her in-laws’ home. Everyone smiled. She was a chubby girl. A few houses away, Kalpana, locked in her room without food could hear the disharmonious orchestra. A sour reminder of how little she had brought [...]


