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It has been six long decades since India gained freedom but many Indians are still trapped in age-old traditional beliefs. Here ‘old beliefs’ imply the mindset of the people who still find themselves in the mindset of girl-boy inequality. The liberal Indian society has failed to transform the orthodox India. No doubt India is advancing at a fast pace in the field of science and technology but if look at the grass-root level the picture is not so rosy. It is rather gloomy when it comes to how we treat the fairer sex.
The status of females in India aptly symbolizes India’s status of being a developing nation, miles away from being a developed nation. Of course, India deserves to be in this list because even in 21st century, the girl child continues to be murdered here before she is born.
The narrow minded people don’t mind murdering their unborn daughters because they consider girls to be a social and economic burden. Many families put pressure on women to give birth to a boy child so that he take the family’s name forward, light the funeral pyre and be the bread winner of the family. We have several examples of women excelling in every field but sadly, even in such times we find foetus lying in farms, floating in the rivers, wrapped up in jute bags etc. More shocking is the fact that this sinful crime is common not only in rural areas but also in the urban areas where people are considered educated.
The truth behind this crime has been brought out several times by both print and the electronic media but it has failed to melt the hearts and minds of those who remain unaffected by the grave sin.
According to statistics nearly 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in the country in the past two decades. As a result human trafficking has become common in various states of India where teenage girls are being sold for money by poor families.
Ironically, this all happens in a country where the girl is seen as an incarnation of Goddess. In such a scenario, it is really difficult to digest the harsh reality of differences between a girl and a boy.
There is an urgent need of undoing the historical and traditional wrongs of a gendered society; only then the skewed sex ratio can be balanced in order to maintain the progress of the country.