Media In India/elsewhere

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Just the usual poison from BBC. They are very good at teaching DIEs to self-hate.

The 'curse' of having a girl

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Blaring car horns, loud belching exhaust fumes, the electronic beats of Bollywood tracks - all competing for attention in the kaleidoscope of sound that fills the air.

<b>And the smells too, the foul stench across the highway from the Yamuna river: an exotic blend of poisonous sewage and household waste. </b>

Along these banks sit small children who squat, wash and drink from the river. Their homes are in the filthy shanty towns that line the road the three of us will take home.

In my parents' native Punjab, girls are often killed at birth. It has skewed the ratio of girls to boys so much that some villages have not seen the birth of a female in years. Thousands of men in rural areas now have trouble finding a wife. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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Same with Gurinder Chadha (Paul Mayeda Berges), Deepa Mehta, Meera Nair etc.