Anguish of a Girl Child

  “Ashtaputravathi Bhava” (May you be blessed with 8 sons) is an old Hindu ‘blessing’. What does this kind of sexist benediction or rather a curse, mean for a little girl in India?   In many Indian villages, the girl child is not wanted at all. They would rather she not live and female infanticide [...]

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