Tulsi Prajna 1995 07

SR No.: 524584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 164
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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India as well as metropolitan cities. In Punjab, an infant girl is sometimes called "mal", meaning dead. Even in the remote areas women are well aware of amniocentises and get about female foetuses This technique of amniocentises to detact the unborn foetus and to abort it had become widespread in the last two decades. Now this technique is easily available throughout India. In a study done by J J Hospital in Bombay of abortion done, out of 8000 cases, 7999 were of female. According to one estimate, female foeticide has followed amniocenteses in a staggering 78,000 cases in the country from 1978 to 1982 and every year it is increasing. You will be surprised to know the fact that an advertisement inserted by two doctors in Amritsar, who offer such techniques, exhorts all couples in the child-bearing age that "giving......not only enhances the increasing population but also birth to a number of female children lead to a chain reaction of many social, economic and mental stresses on these families." Amniocentises, which also permits the deteceion of sex prior to birth, "Come to your rescue......... (provides relief to couples reguireing a male child." Other ads are more blunt: "Better pay Rs. 500 now than Rs. 5 lakh later."
Domestic violence
Violence is perpetuated on usually young married women in their marital homes. This takes many forms of beating, torture, verbal abuse, starving, locking up, imposing excessive work burdens, denying money for running the household, sexual abuse etc. Quite often this may result in murder, but more often in driving the women to suicide. There are a large number of suicides of women, the number being highest in Gujarat. In one year (1987) it was 918. At National level the number of reported female suicides raise from 18,222 in 1982 to 19,312 in 1983. Many cases of murder get camouflaged as suicide. In the majority of cases, husbands and in-laws are implicated. The reasons are many-suspicion about wife's fidelity, childlessness or not bearing a son, disputes about household matters, wife's protests against alcoholism to husbands, infatuation of the man with another women etc.
Eveteasing and Kidnapping
Eveteasing became day to day phenomenon in big cities. This type of harrassment is part of the life of Indian women, the college and school girl on the roads, trains and buses, or young girls in slums and chawls are eveteasad every day. In 1989-1990 the number of recorded cases of eveteasing was 9,625 and of Kidnapping 11,126.18 Conclusion
If we want to see just and equal society and welfare of the world