India Dishonoured: Behind A Nation's War On Women - Plot & Excerpts
The northern states of Haryana and Punjab, along with the neighbouring city of New Delhi, are ground zero for India’s male problem. In September 2011, Delhi Police stumbled upon a trafficking racket in Haryana after they found a girl who was reported missing in neighbouring Delhi. She had been lured by a man to his house after she lost her way. The police said she was kidnapped and then sold to a farmer for Rs 70,000 ($1305, £840). Unusually, this was not a straightforward case of kidnapping and rape; the farmer had taken the girl to a local temple where they were forcibly ‘married’. A police officer later told the press that he had wanted a wife to do the household chores and fulfil his sexual needs. The relatively prosperous north is where the dystopian vision of Matrubhoomi is most rapidly becoming a reality. While the sex ratio for children under seven has declined to 914 girls for every 1000 boys across the country, Haryana, Punjab and New Delhi were at the bottom of the league with 830, 846 and 866 girls respectively.1Figures from the 2011 Census The impact this disparity has on a broader level is a massive problem but rarely explored.
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