Girls are missing

A study suggests Indian women in the UK are aborting unborn daughters so they can have more boys.

The Oxford University study suggests 1,500 girls are “missing” from the birth statistics in England and Wales from 1990 to 2005 and this could be due to sex selective abortions.

Ultrasound test is illegal in India since the early 1980s but still Doctors are carrying out the tests in closed doors to determine sex and aborting the female fetuses. As per BBC- an estimated seven million girls have gone missing from India’s population over the last 25 years. As I have already pointed out in my previous article that sex selective abortion is in practice in some states in India. We can understand the reasons for Indian couples which may be cultural, social, economic or illiteracy but it is really surprise to learn that UK Indian women are travelling to India for such sex selective abortions. BBC says: It is impossible to say how many British women are traveling to India for such terminations.

It’s an awful situation. Another kind of outsourcing to India? Doctors, clinics may be happy in such out sourcing but if this goes on, one day situation may come when there will be nobody to bear male offspring.

Acknowledgment :BBC news
photo : project Balika

 

A wise decision of Taslima

It is a wise decision of Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi feminist writer to end the controversy by deleting or withdrawing those controversial contents of her Book “Dwikhandita”. Nothing would be better than this for a peaceful solution to save the situation being faced by herself as well as the Government of India. On Friday 30^th Nov 2007, she said :

“I am withdrawing controversial lines in ‘Dwikhandita’, written in 2002 with the memory of Bangladesh in the 1980s when military threw out secularism in the country. I wrote the book in support of the people who defended secular values. I had no intention to hurt anybody’s sentiment”.

“Now since some people in India claim that it hurt their sentiments, I am withdrawing some lines in the book,” Taslima said.

She hoped from now on, there would be no controversy and “I’ll be able to live peacefully in this country.” She had already asked her publisher not to circulate copies of the book which were in their possession and she said : “I asked my publisher to bring out the next edition of the book deleting those controversial lines”.

Taslima speaks, writes in our language which makes us feel her very close to us and never feel her as “Bangladeshi”. She too loves Kolkata very much, there is no doubt in it. We expect that Taslima should live in India like an Indian, harmoniously having moulded herself in Indian traditions and cultures. Lets hope that she would be forgiven and welcome by all section of people of India since she has reconciled herself.

Sourse: Times of India/ Electronics media

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