Daughters Are Precious My morning reading in the Hindustan Times today. A new column by actor-activist Aamir Khan. He writes: Every conceivable reason that I have come across during our research of people explaining why they want a boy and not a girl as a daughter does not seem to make any sense to me. For instance, “if we have a girl then at the time of her marraige we have to pay dowry”, or “a girl cannot perform the last rites after the death of her parents, or near and dear ones”, or “the girl can’t take the vansh, or family forward”…All these are man-made reasons. We have created dowry and are now killing the girl child as if she is responsible for it. We have decided for ourselves that girls can’t perform last rites and then we say the girl is to blame.” FJP: Agreed, approved, and happy to see this in a newspaper.

Daughters Are Precious

My morning reading in the Hindustan Times today. A new column by actor-activist Aamir Khan. He writes:

Every conceivable reason that I have come across during our research of people explaining why they want a boy and not a girl as a daughter does not seem to make any sense to me. For instance, “if we have a girl then at the time of her marraige we have to pay dowry”, or “a girl cannot perform the last rites after the death of her parents, or near and dear ones”, or “the girl can’t take the vansh, or family forward”…All these are man-made reasons. We have created dowry and are now killing the girl child as if she is responsible for it. We have decided for ourselves that girls can’t perform last rites and then we say the girl is to blame.”

FJP: Agreed, approved, and happy to see this in a newspaper.

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    BAM!!!
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    Actor-activist Amir Khan writes...today: “Every conceivable reason that I have come across...
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    Very moving.
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    Link to article by Aamir Khan of 3 Idiots and Satyamev Jayate
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    :) always improving
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    Dehradun and posted this over at...FJP this morning.
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    Girls ARE special. I love this piece.
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    I didn’t know Amir Khan was an activist.
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    and this is why Aamir Khan is my favourite Bollywood Khan. :D
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    I had a really nice conversation with the man who ran the hotel I stayed at in Delhi when I first got to India about his...
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