Discussing the Declining Sex Ratio In India

This Sunday was not any special day for me,except I m going to home today.So as daily routine I was going through newspaper and there was a report on declining sex ratio in Haryana.In the article subject how Jaat community is travelling all upto Kerala to get their bachelors married.Humm not any new thing as we all know that sex ratio is constantly declining in our country,especially in Northern Region and due to this fact I often felt ashamed that I belong to the northern India.Well to describe this problem anyone can state many factors such as poverty,illiteracy blah blah blah....But if we ponder upon dis problem in a wide spectrum then we will be astonished to know that not only lower illiterate society is solely responsible for this catastrophe but ours whole society is to blame.Everyone is contributing towards this heinous crime.Well I would like to express my views on this all thoughts that were storming my mind since morning...so here it is..

We all know the huge lecture on how we Indians have different strategies against growing up one’s sons or daughters and how its screwing up the gender ratio in most literate of cities. This discrimination is built inside the religious rituals from the point of baby birth.As we celebrate the birth of boy in a very grand manner various rituals are there such as thali pitna as soon as boy is born, Kuan Pujan,Chatti Ki Raat(celebrated on 6th day of birth),but can anyone tell me what they had done on the birth of baby girl...nothing...go to hell with all this preferential treatment to the source of creation. Anyway.

A quite of a verbal fashion that we see in most northern states is to call one’s daughters or grand daughters as “beta”. For those unaware, its a hindi word which means a Son. The reason put forth is to express no gender discrimination by the elderly. Its supposed to be a sign that they give equal opportunities and preferences to both Sons and Daughters of the family. We are a growing country and we wish to show our literacy and open heartedness in everything we can. They all seemed to have that silly mistake.

Well, if you thought that both genders are equal before you then why the hell you had to title one as other? Calling her what she is isn’t enough eh? The Title “beta” when given to a daughter is simply taking her to the better place. So you see, being a son is that better place. There goes your gender differences from what you show rather than what you still bloody believe inside. Try this, call the sons as “beti” (The hindi word for a daughter).Then ask your sons what they feel inside their hearts and you will know the agony you are creating in your daughters.Anyways all this will not end if we remain shackeled in our centuries old traditions n parampara so rise from where you are now and take a vow to celebrate a girl's b'day in the same way as you celebrates that of your son.And let your daughters your daughters and your sons your sons and I'm sure it will really make a difference.