"Where killing baby girls is ‘no big sin’” ---- Dahlberg
I hear them speak of female infanticide being a dreadful felony entrenching India like roots of a banyan tree. I see records stating the most recent sex ratio of Indian states- a reproof of human vanity. I read of babies (girls, of course) being fed with unhulled rice to rupture their wind pipe or not fed at all, of others who are left to sink in a bowl of milk. How gruesome!
“Men are ritually pure, physically strong, and emotionally mature; women on the other hand are ritually pollutable, physically weak and lack strong will power”.
So they kill daughters - an inevitable victory of illusion over truth. We know resurrections never happen.
We have been practicing infanticide for a very long time. Thousands of years ago, people in Sparta abandoned their physically disabled and weak babies. Parents didn’t have a say. Society took the decision. Society takes the decision even today. Life combines grittiness of hard realism, compromise and helplessness. How could roses shed off their protective thorns? What would a man do if he finds himself incapable of protecting his daughter’s fragility? Society is full of hawk-men waiting to rip off his most vulnerable treasure. He knows resurrections never happen.
Quite a thoughtful post. Shockingly true, but female infanticide is still present in many parts of India. Quite sad, but Son preference has become daughter hatred in India in the recent decades and hence, an increase in violence against women.
ReplyDeleteThe birth of a girl child is most feared
ReplyDeleteAnd many a novel way is heard
Abut how her life is taken
Leaving us all totally shaken
Killed she is right after birth
Even before her first cries are heard
Parents proclaim she’s a burden
To their family – already poverty ridden
Is the value of a “life” so cheap I wonder
Their ability to create and destroy so freely makes me ponder
The laws against such acts should be made stricter
Ensuring equality of the female gender.