Lifestyle in India is changing and we are growing to be very modern. But this change is turning out to be double standard. Where in the urban population the girls & ladies are marching towards the pinnacle of the rat race, in the rural side of our country the modernity is developing routes of female infanticide. My heart sinks at every news I read or hear about parents giving up on a girl child. Hence as much as glad I am with doctors not allowed to reveal the gender of the infant I know, parents kill the child if turned out a girl. I get this anger which is full of despair and helplessness at every such death of a female child. It was shocking to even learn about how technology is used in India to support parents want for male child. First of all, girls are such pretty beings how would we survive if not for them? I wonder how I would have grown up without having a mother? How would I have learnt nurturing & sharing without my sister? How would I have learnt to bounce back without all those girls who stood by me as friends since my struggling days….? & how will I be able to make my family complete without a wife?! In spite of all the awareness, our rural conservative mindsets are still bent on a boy child. It makes me very sad every time I hear about a case of female infanticide. The recent news of doctors pumping male hormones into an infant girl’s body & girl child undergoing surgery to become a boy with parents perusal has hit the roof. I never believed in societal pressure but now the parental thought process has deepened the wound in me about abusing & killing of the girl child. It fears me to think I come from a country where the fellow citizens think a girl to be a burden even in this age where a girl is doing above all men in all walks of life. Every time I hear about this, it makes me wonder what would I have done without my sister. I want to reach out to all and show them how much a girl is worthy of. Especially our culture calling her the goddess of wealth “laxmi”. I want to tell every citizen that if you want a child be ready to accept a girl or a boy child. And all those with a boy child should not feel proud any more as girls are going to rule the world very soon.
Monday, 30 August 2010
An issue close to my heart
Lifestyle in India is changing and we are growing to be very modern. But this change is turning out to be double standard. Where in the urban population the girls & ladies are marching towards the pinnacle of the rat race, in the rural side of our country the modernity is developing routes of female infanticide. My heart sinks at every news I read or hear about parents giving up on a girl child. Hence as much as glad I am with doctors not allowed to reveal the gender of the infant I know, parents kill the child if turned out a girl. I get this anger which is full of despair and helplessness at every such death of a female child. It was shocking to even learn about how technology is used in India to support parents want for male child. First of all, girls are such pretty beings how would we survive if not for them? I wonder how I would have grown up without having a mother? How would I have learnt nurturing & sharing without my sister? How would I have learnt to bounce back without all those girls who stood by me as friends since my struggling days….? & how will I be able to make my family complete without a wife?! In spite of all the awareness, our rural conservative mindsets are still bent on a boy child. It makes me very sad every time I hear about a case of female infanticide. The recent news of doctors pumping male hormones into an infant girl’s body & girl child undergoing surgery to become a boy with parents perusal has hit the roof. I never believed in societal pressure but now the parental thought process has deepened the wound in me about abusing & killing of the girl child. It fears me to think I come from a country where the fellow citizens think a girl to be a burden even in this age where a girl is doing above all men in all walks of life. Every time I hear about this, it makes me wonder what would I have done without my sister. I want to reach out to all and show them how much a girl is worthy of. Especially our culture calling her the goddess of wealth “laxmi”. I want to tell every citizen that if you want a child be ready to accept a girl or a boy child. And all those with a boy child should not feel proud any more as girls are going to rule the world very soon.
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