Now, this was going to happen sooner or later. We can anticipate far worse things than this in future. After all, the families want boys and not girls, at least here in India, especially north and west India. Let’s not put facts and figures here that are pretty dismal already with Punjab being the worst offender with about 874 girls for every 1000 boys.



Schoolboys cross-dressed in a play staged in Amritsar recently to warn against the alarmingly skewed child sex ratio in Punjab.



Young boys and girls, all decked up in traditional finery, performed a play, which brought to sharp focus the gravity of the problem and its social implications.



The play titled ‘Ruh Punjab Di’ or the Spirit of Punjab also aimed to bring forth the problem of gender bias, which every girl undergoes not only in rural pockets, but in highly sophisticated and educated societies as well.



The practice of selective birth through selective abortions after sex determination tests, female foeticide and lab induced in vitro fertilization for a boy child has resulted in such a crisis for females that in rural Punjab and Haryana, men have started buying and selling brides from outside states as commodities. This doesn’t stop there, in many villages, men-folk in a single household have to do with sharing a single ‘wife’.



It seems the kids, who staged the play in Amritsar have better senses than their parents.





News : Hindustan Times Image : UNFPA