Daughters or Debts? || Acharya Prashant

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

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00:00The day a daughter is born, at least the financial purpose of the father's life is decided.

00:07Cast in stone.

00:08Now I have a daughter.

00:09So all I am doing is saving for her wedding.

00:13And if he by chance happens to have three girls, think of his predicament.

00:17And now do you see that this fat wedding business is also directly related to female infanticide

00:24and foeticide?

00:25Because if a daughter is born, you'll have to arrange that kind of wedding and dowry.

00:29And you already have two daughters.

00:30And your means do not permit you that kind of expenditure the third time over.

00:36So the moment you know that a third girl is about to arrive, you kill her in the foetus,

00:41in the womb.

00:42We are very cultured people.

00:44Weddings are occasions that demonstrate our great culture.

00:47Look at the music, look at the clothes, look at the food.

00:50So we are beasts with culture.

00:52What good is this culture if it cannot help you transcend your beast?