India envisages to become a developed
nation. However, due to her so-called superstitious traditional
culture she is unable to cope with modern world. Some beliefs and
practices are acting as hurdle to her progress. In this country women
are not getting the respect which they should get. According to
Indian Constitution everyone should get equal opportunity to
progress.
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India is a land where female gods are worshipped, however, in
practice the society is patriarchal. Mother is an important factor
but if she gives birth to a female child then she is abused by the
family. Through scientific methods it can be detected whether the
baby is a boy or a girl when it is inside the womb. So called
cultured people irrespective of education are taking the advantage of
advanced technologies illegally and are wasting no time in destroying
the baby if it turns out to be a girl. Most are happy with male child. According to them their future will be protected by their
sons and they will earn lots of money. Even they will also help
maintain their lineage and heredity. At times the mother is held
responsible for the birth of a female child but those who are aware
of medical science know it better that the male chromosome Y can only
be given by the male partner. In spite of knowing all this many women
are tortured, killed and even compelled to commit suicide. During
pregnancy women are subject to brutal torture to kill the female
baby which even lead to death of the mother. In India steps were
taken against female infanticide which lead to reduced instances of
such cases. Now the disturbing trend has again surfaced.
Almost every day if we open any newspaper or news channel we hear
or read news about female infanticide. Government has enactments in
place against such killings but it is not enough. Before elections all
ministers shout they will do for the society but once they are
elected they are of no use. In India the president is a woman, there
are female ministers and number of entrepreneurs are women. My
question to them is what are they are doing? Aren’t they reading
newspapers? Why can't they do anything despite being in seats of
power? Who will reply to all these questions? Now it’s high time
for common women to raise their voice against female infanticide. If
this system persists then a situation will arise when female
population of India will decline which is alarming for the days to
come.
We can not move towards modernisation with our illogical, illegal,
unethical, inhuman, immoral and unjustified Hippocratic culture.
Detection of sex before birth is illegal and punishable crime but in
every part of the country it is happening. Harsh punishments should
be imposed on the criminals who indulge in this act. The notion that
male child is more likely to ensure well protected future for
parents is proving to be useless in modern society. Research has
shown that female children are actually taking care of their parents
even after their marriage while the male ones are failing to keep
their word.
About the Author-
Nilika Banerjee is student of Journalism & Mass Communication at Rani Birla Girl's College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Disclaimer:
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and
they do not reflect in any way those of the Dispassionate Observer.
Nilika, your article is awesome. Girl child infanticide is one of the big crime, or i can say a worst social curse on our so called cultured, educated & civilized society. In you article you ask a question to those women who have the powers to clean our society from these kinds of curses. but fact is, world's biggest enemy for women are themselves, they hate their own race. maximum number of these cases are forcefully done by the mother-in-laws of the pregnant ladies who carrying a girl child inside her womb. They don't have any respect for there own race. Anyway, I must say your article is very good. Keep it up.
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