India's missing girls: fears grow over rising levels of foeticide | KumKum Dasgupta

From Global development | The Guardian Wed Apr 9 2014, 01:00:00

Skewed gender ratio caused by killing of thousands of girls has given rise to a system of bride-buying and trafficking

In a village in India's eastern state of Bihar, a baby girl is born. Her father, desperate for a boy, drowns the infant in a vat of milk in front of his neighbours.

Thankfully, this is not a true story. It is the plot of the film Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, which Time magazine named as one of the 10 best films of 2003.

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