Daughter is burden? || Acharya Prashant

Weddings - why we all love them! || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2023)

Transcript

00:00Still, in small town India and rural India, the day a daughter is born, at least the financial

00:07purpose of the father's life is decided.

00:11Cast in stone.

00:12Now I have a daughter, so all I am doing is saving for her wedding.

00:17So what is the poor father doing for the next 25 years since the girl is born?

00:21Just saving, saving and saving.

00:23And if he by chance happens to have 3 girls, think of his predicament.

00:28And now do you see that this fat wedding business is also directly related to female infanticide

00:34and foeticide?

00:35Because if a daughter is born, you'll have to arrange that kind of wedding and dowry.

00:40And you already have two daughters.

00:42And your means do not permit you that kind of expenditure the third time over.

00:47So the moment you know that a third girl is about to arrive, you kill her in the foetus,

00:53in the womb.

00:54Do you see this?