Let her live… not leave

Had not she aborted, she would have become a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a social worker, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife and a woman. But she was killed before she could experience the womanhood. In India today also a girl child is looked upon as an unwanted offspring. She shut her eyes before she could open them to look outside of the mother’s womb, to look the world full of life.

A surprising study carried out by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says about 50 million girls and women are missing from Indian crowd due to systematic gender discrimination in India. In all most all countries in the world, 105 females take birth for every 100 males. In India this ratio has been highly affected. There are less than 93 women for every 100 men in India’s population. And the one and the major reason for this is the practice of female infanticide in India.

This practice is mostly provoked by other bizarre social practices such as dowry system. Dowry system demands a sum of money from bride’s family at the time of marriage. A birth of a girl child is believed to be great concern for the poor family due to this malpractice. The family would always prefer boy child over girl child so they can demand money at the time of marriage instead of giving.

It would be wrong to think that gender discrimination is only limited to poor families. Cultural beliefs and social norms play huge role in deciding the gender play. The threat to womanhood would not stop, unless these norms are challenged.

It is the worst picture and hard to believe that advertisements of ultrasound scanners which detect the sex of a child highlights the taglines such as ‘Spend 600 rupees now and save 50,000 rupees later’. Here surely the later sum of money indicates the amount of dowry and advertisement claims that you would save this money in future by spending 600 bucks to abort the girl child.

The scientific methods to detect the sex of the child are improving day by day thus threatening the existence of a woman. We need major awareness programs to control this drastic situation. India needs thorough revision of its laws regarding to malpractices against women. We need to do something to prevent the abortions of female foetuses.

‘Reality of crime and justice,

Molestation, verbal abuse, domestic violence, rape, dowry harassment, exploitation these are the few situations women suffer from every now and then. Woman is a mother, a daughter, a wife, a daughter in law, a sister, a friend and most of the time she is victimized by her kin. The serial ‘Kab Kyon Kaise’ highlights the real episodes in the life of women where they are the victims. In any relationship the small dispute or misunderstanding can take a drastic turn which can eventually turn into a crime. A husband can harass his own wife for dowry, in-laws can harass daughter in law, and even sometimes past relationships of a woman can put a scar on her future. Kab Kyon Kaise highlights the anguish and pain of a woman.

‘Kab Kyon Kaise’ is being on air since 26^th August 2006 and is broadcasted every Saturday at 9.00 P.M. on DD1. This show on National Network has been produced by Gayatri Tellesoft Ltd. Sakshi Tanwar; the anchor of the show introduces the plot of the each episode confidently.

Each episode is a one story which depicts the sufferings of the fairer sex in the society. The real life incident is wonderfully dramatized by various actors in each story which helps to analyze the motive behind the crime. The anchor confidently introduces the incident and at the end she does not miss to elaborate the morale of the story. Her entire appearance is quite Indian and her voice is confident.

The serial makes audience aware about crime against women and helps one to be cautious.