future-without-women?

sad but true scene

@Muralidharan: Sir very interesting insight you have provided and it is heartwarming to know that someone is out there doing all the legwork from RTI to tracing and finding about the welfare of the parents and children. Best wishes to you.

@Rathin and Basab: Discrimantion against women, is so deep rooted. We need education, and stringent laws to punish the guilty and make examples of them. 

@Srinivas: If there were pain in the heart of the tormentor or parents who kill their girl child, then there would be no deaths at all . It is unfortunate, very very unfortunate

@Muhammed, Sudhakar, Anuradha, Shrikant, Ardhendu, Surnarayan and Basab, Thanks for sharing yoru views

This is very unfortunate but true. It is indeed very surprising that these crimes are committed by women only. It is may be illiteracy or may be personnel experience at young age and the culprit in most of the cases are mother in law.

We should have stringent laws to deal with such problems including life imprisonment. In a society where Khap Panchayat exists the society is by and large responsible.

NGO's and government should educate the people about the equality of both the gender. Even the animal community will feel shame, if at all they could express.    

There will not be any future without women. Thanks for sharing

IT IS SHOCKING.AND HONESTLY I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE HEADING. THANKS CHITRA FOR THE REFERRAL.

IT IS SHOCKING.AND HONESTLY I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE HEADING. THANKS CHITRA FOR THE REFERRAL.

Thanks for sharing this my frnd Chitra. I truely in agreement that one " CANNT THINK OF WORLD WITHOUT GIRLS" 

Future without women - You can even think of it- without them- everything will end/ stop.
Thanks for referral, Chitra.

 Respected chitra bannerjee 
with due respects I'd request not to believe on what the European people are saying. We have already tasted the result of our belief bestowed upon them once for 200 years, apparently i have learned that they are planning to take our traditional health technique yoga, claiming it to be their's.
However if they are saying like this then we must, by every possible efforts, prove them totally faulty in drafting conclusions about us.

The situation is alarming.  This tendency is apparent in  poverty stricken villages of India.  Dowry system is ruining the society.  Govt. have no answer to it.  Its the failure of the successive Indian Govts.  Instead of addressing the root cause, we are trying to do surgery somewhere.  But, I am unable to digest the comparison of the situation with that of Nazi massacres.  The parents of the child are resorting to killing of the girl child.  They too have the pain within for doing this, but they are forced to do it.  We are looking at the heinous act of killing a girl child but failing to address the cause for the tendency.  We cant imagine a world without women.  She is "Brahma" the creator.  When she is not there, where comes the creation.  These heinous killings are not due to hatred towards girl child. The comparison is ridiculous.

You are right Chitra.  Its very alarming. 

You may like to read the reality: "Tamil Nadu launched the cradle baby scheme in 1992, which means the very first children adopted under it would now be 15-16 years old. But there is no information about these children and how the scheme has benefited them. No one in the government knows what happened to them after they were handed over to adoption agencies. No records have been kept.

According to erstwhile State Social Welfare Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna, the government only has information about the babies until the time they were delivered to the adoption agencies."We don't have records on where the babies have gone from there. We are in the process of collecting the information (regarding their whereabouts and welfare),".

According to information obtained by a NGO under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, on June 1, 2007, the government had received a total of 2,589 children. Though the scheme was launched in 1992, most arrivals occurred after 2000. About 2,495 children were received during this period -- 1,545 surrendered and 950 abandoned babies. It has been estimated that the total number may be as high as 3,000. But where are they now? And what about their parents?
Even deaths are reported only by number; nobody even knows whether the biological parents are informed. In fact, the infant mortality rate (IMR) among cradle babies is five times higher than the state average."The IMR in Tamil Nadu is 31, but it is 162 for the cradle babies," says P Phavalam, project officer at the Madurai-based Society for Integrated Rural Development. He adds:"As on June 1, 2007, out of the 2,589 babies received under the scheme, 404 children died."

I read many a stories on Nazi's attrocites. I also read stories, almost on a daily basis, on killing baby girls. The last paragraph of your article is moving. In Andhra Pradesh killing the girl child has become the order of the day. It is rampant in tribal areas and remote villages. I still feel that lack of education among the parents is the main cause for this. Punishment do not deter them. Educating them is the only solution.

While I could have tagged it as ghastly crimes, I need to step back. The individuals who are doing this are people like you and me, except living in a different society. 

A society where there is more of gender discrimination which we start injecting into a child from his / her early childhood in terms of behavior, inclinations and strengths / weakness. 

On the other hand, there is another equally wrong advocacy of gender equality by feminist, who look forward to females copying male behavior - another hard hit on female individuality.

This will only improve when most of us in society understands that males and females are firstly, human beings, while having independent traits which provides value and balance in the larger picture.