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| K.N.T.Sastry |
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In northern Andhra Pradesh, India, Lambada community - a marginalized poverty-stricken nomadic tribe - nurtures a belief that a girl child is an ill omen, and needs to be got rid of at birth, while a male child is the harbinger of assured good life. This has led to the emergence of middlemen who spot the pregnant women in the community, scan them for fetal sex, and upon learning a girl baby is due, they cultivate mother by giving her a few rupees, some iron tablets, occasional meat et al, and take away the girl child on its birth, by paying paltry sums, for selling the child to adoption agencies, who ultimately sell these children branding them as orphans to western countries.
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Extreme penury drives these people to accept this offer, as it not only gives them food for a couple of days, but they also comfort themselves with the feeling that the girl may be safe. In contrast, cities like Hyderabad, have witnessed women getting rid of their female children on their birth by engaging hospital staff to swap the girl child for a male baby.
The end result is that the girl child is becoming an unwanted creature in the poverty stricken households. Noticing that these Lambadas are the ones who build the cyber towns of the so-called Hi-Tech cities that boast of IT industry, I felt their plight needs attention. Based on my earlier documentary ‘Harvesting Baby Girls’, this film is a fiction that has more facts than fiction.
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