Orissa Review * December - 2008 Female Foeticide in India : A Serious Challenge for the Society Dr. Krushna Chandra Jena Introduction : Women who constitute half a human population have been discriminated‚ harassed and exploited irrespective of the country to which they belong‚ unmindful of the religion which they profess and oblivious of the timeframe in which they live.1 Everywhere women are confronted with many challenges. Female foeticide is perhaps one of the worst forms of violence
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FEMALE EDUCATION Intrcduction: Education means mental and moral training. It is the light that clears off the darkness of ignorance from our mental horizon. It open wide to our vision the vastness of God’s creation and enables us to think about the merciful creator of this universe. It is a blessing. It ensures a perfect and harmonious development of our innate qualities and makes us worthy of the name `Ashraful Makhlukat’ Education should be universal: Education is a light to which everybody
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A Cry Still Unheard: The Menace Of Female Foeticide In India “I am daughter of India. I am like your daughters who are playing in your premises‚ who are bringing laurels to the nation like Sunita Williams‚ Kiran Bedi‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Sania Mirza etc. But there is a difference between me and all of you as I have been killed in the womb of my mother itself.” Once in our lives‚ most of us must have heard that a child is a ‘gift’ from God. Though whatever biology may suggest‚ it is not an uncommon
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other areas. This was called the "Red Scare" (Brinkley). One writer that used this era as a basis for his play‚ The Crucible‚ was Arthur Miller. He was able to capture the panic and mere insanity of many Americans in an allegorical way. The "crusade against subversion" played a significant role in the following: the actions and tactics of McCarthy‚ the reasons why Miller and other artists were targets of McCarthyism‚ and the relationship of his play The Crucible to the events of the late 1940 ’s to the
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Female Foeticide in India Submitted by admin on 1 May‚ 2004 - 05:25 • India • IHN 2004.2 May • International Humanist News [pic] Female Foeticide in India By Indu Grewal and J. Kishore Introduction Some of the worst gender ratios‚ indicating gross violation of women’s rights‚ are found in South and East Asian countries such as India and China. The determination of the sex of the foetus by ultrasound scanning‚ amniocentesis‚ and in vitro fertilization has aggravated this situation
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Tich Miller The poem “Tich Miller” by Wendy Cope is about two schoolgirls named Tich Miller and Tubby. Tubby is explaining different incidents that she experienced in her youth‚ which caused quite some trauma for her and Tich Miller. We don’t know the gender of Tubby but I am assuming that Tubby is a girl. Tubby is telling us about how Tich and she always were the last persons to be picked for outdoor games. When the team had to pick players the last person to be picked was always Tich who stood
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Female Foeticide In India‚ welfare measures like empowerment of women‚ reservation in Parliament‚ free education to girl child and a lot of other woman progressive initiative‚ do not make sense when we look at cases of female foeticide. There are only 933 females for every 1000 males against global figure of 1060 females per 1000 males. Sex ratio is a composite indicator of woman’s status in a society. If we analyse state wise sex ratio‚ it is most disturbing to note that the States like
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female foeticide/ infanticide The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother’s womb. How cruel? The practice has been followed in India for ages‚ a country that once described its women as godessess. For this reason‚ Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves -- why? Just for the mere want of a boy‚ mothers don’t feel bad in strangulating their daughters in their wombs. Can anyone be more cruel? In India‚ sex
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W7000 – WRITING SKILLS My research topic is on Female Circumcision‚ otherwise known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG). Female Genital Mutilation is a procedure that involves intentional alteration or cutting of female genital organs for non- medical reasons‚ from age infant to 10 years and older depending on the community. Studies have shown that this practice does not have any health benefit to any female‚ but rather it causes damages. FGM practice is recognized as a violation of human rights
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Three things Miller cares about would include: a) The fact that God calls people in three ways: to a relationship with their Creator and to God’s people (primary calling)‚ to a mission (secondary calling)‚ and to a world of daily tasks with surprises (immediate calling) (p.38-39)‚ b) the SHAPE acronym and how all of it’s elements can provide clues to your life purpose (p.41)‚ and c) Having a mission statement helps us focus our lives in terms of our relationships with friends‚ family‚ coworkers and
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