"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.
