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Female Issues Affecting The Indian Society Essay

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The age old problem of female related issues affecting the Indian society adversely continues to exist today in the 21st century. The advancement of new age, technology, scientific inventions, standard of life, and change in life style has failed to bring- in change of the mindset. The problem of female infanticide in India seems to be persistent. The alarming records collected by local, regional, national and international bodies only reflect the drastic decline in the male- female ratio. The matter is of serious concern and what is required is not only law but the change that each one has to bring- in understanding that when Nature was impartial in evolving man and woman, why has the society then brought about gender discrimination.
This paper is an attempt to discuss the present and future repercussions faced due to female infanticide. Since the society is reflected through literature, art and fiction, the writer has made an attempt to make a journey of today’s reality through Sujata Bhatt’s poem ‘Voice of the Unwanted Girl’ and Manish Jha’s motion picture, ‘Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women’ that is set in the 2050s.

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