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[sil.]

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Globalization is making the
rich world even richer,

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but billions are locked out. They\'re living on
the edge between the rich world and the poor.

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They face tough choices,
they want to join the party.

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You would think that as countries become
richer, most people become (inaudible).

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But in one of the world\'s most successful
economies up to half the population

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and the risk of being left behind, unless like one
young woman, they make some awkward decisions.

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[music]

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The last few days of spring

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before the hot summer, tourists are
still arriving by the thousand

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to see the Taj Mahal, built
by an Indian emperor

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in memory of his beloved queen. But more than
350 years later that (inaudible) in the shadow

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of (inaudible) love most famous monument, 27-year-old
Vaijanthi is living in a very different India.

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[sil.]

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I had thought the prince of my dreams would come and
take me away. I had a lot of dreams in my heart,

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just like in the movies. I
thought love was a good thing.

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My marriage would be made in heaven. My
friends would dress me on my wedding day.

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I had all these hopes. But now
I think love as a betrayal.

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What happened to you? As (inaudible)
I gave birth to a daughter Shraddha

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then I had an abortion. My in-laws got it
done forcibly. The astrologer had predicted

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that I would have five girls. So with that in mind,
my mother-in-law forced me to have an abortion.

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The third pregnancy was also a girl,

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they insisted I abort the fetus, but I
refused. I came back home to my mother.

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My mother asked what the matter was. I told her they wanted
a son. I said that I would give birth to my daughter.

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For us women are symbol of strength,
like the warrior queen of Jhansi.

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I saved her and today she is alive.

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Educated only till secondary school and without any
means of livelihood, the (inaudible) against Vaijanthi.

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It\'s a tough choice for her.
Should she walk out on her husband

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after what he and his family have done to
her? Or should she return back to his house.

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She still to make a decision and
she faces an agonizing dilemma

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over the future of her marriage.
Do you still love your husband?

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Yes, I still love him. I would like to go
back to him. I asked him to come over.

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But instead, he said give me a divorce.
I said how can I give you a divorce,

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when we haven\'t discussed anything. I
said, I\'ll not let you off so easily.

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You have spoiled my life and I will
not let you ruin someone else\'s.

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Now I\'m living like a widow.
What will happen to my life?

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Fetal scans to make sure the
next child is not a girl,

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isn\'t illegal but common
practice in India today.

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Figures suggest that around one million girls are
being aborted every year due to sex selection.

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Experts warn that the next census could
reveal a shocking gender imbalance.

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So is India where the country (inaudible)

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young girls have a stake in the future. Vaijanthi
has taken the first step in finding out,

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filling a criminal case against
her husband and in-laws in court.

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They deny illegal abortions of sex
selection. She is unsure (inaudible).

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Tell me Vaijanthi, would you like
to compromise with such a murderer.

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Yes and no, I\'m not sure. How can
you say such a thing being a woman?

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You are running your life like this. Your mother and
brother are supporting you and with their help,

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you should have the courage to stand
on your feet. Can you do that?

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When I see their support, I
do fell, I can go ahead.

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[sil.]

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Vaijanthi\'s situation symbolizes the (inaudible) and
dilemmas faced by millions of ordinary women in India,

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forced by their husband\'s
families to bear only sons.

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Despite huge economic constrains,

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Vaijanthi\'s own family have backed her
fully, unusual in most traditional homes.

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In India, everything is
veiled in hypocrisy.

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They show devotion to a stone
idol, but not a living woman.

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They consider stone idols as goddesses,
they offer them flowers and pray to them.

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But living women, they considered to be
nothing, even though they are the ones,

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who give birth to future
generations and (inaudible).

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[non-English narration]

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I had never thought that my daughter
would have to bear so much grief.

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I have got fed up of this world, after suffering
and struggling so much, I\'m really exhausted.

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In Agra, Vaijanthi meets
other women like her,

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who\'ve been abused by their in-laws.

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Some fighting cases for the last 20 years.

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I got married in 1986 in Mathura. I husband was
in the civil service. His mother lived with him

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and the marriage began on a bad note as it involved constant dowry
demands. After one and a half years I give gave birth to this daughter,

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they made it an issue that I
had produced a girl child,

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so they just abandoned us in the hospital.

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My mother-in-law really got after us. She wanted the first
born to be a boy. She said who gives birth to daughters

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they should be strangled as soon as they are born. Twenty years
later you will have to pay a huge dowry to marry them off.

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There are such good techniques available, get rid of the daughter
right away, she would say. They want dowry, they want a son.

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They wanted an educated daughter-in-law,
who will slave in the house like a maid,

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but she must also work outside
and earn, they want everything.

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To help her resolve her dilemma, we
take Vaijanthi on a trip around India.

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Camels! How wonderful

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Seeing her country for the first time
and discovering whether a girl in India

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really can make it on her own.

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Our first stop New Delhi, capital
of the brave new Indian economy.

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A shy girl who has never really
traveled anywhere before,

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Vaijanthi soaks in the sights and sounds
of the city and enjoys the unanimity.

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[music]

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But she is in for some surprises because
the rising number of female feticides

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symbolizes something scary
for development experts.

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(inaudible) that a country can progress
economically but stay stuck in the past socially.

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They say it\'s a metropolitan
city but it is not metropolitan.

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These malls have come up, people will wear good clothes,
wear good jewelry, they will have the best of (inaudible)

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but the thinking right here is still
orthodox, that doesn\'t make any sense.

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We got together a group of Delhi residence

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to meet Vaijanthi and compare experiences.

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My sister-in-law has both a son and a daughter
that\'s why I wish to have a son this time,

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then we will have a complete family. A son
and a daughter are considered complete,

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but two girls don\'t make a complete family.

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There is also pressure on me. Women are suppressed whether
they\'re working or not. If a woman comes home late from work

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definitely she will be asked why she is late,
but if a husband is late, no one questions him.

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If the woman is tired after work, there
is no one to attend to her needs,

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but her husband expects that he is served a glass of water the moment he steps
in. If a wife doesn\'t make a cup of tea with her own hands for her husband,

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she is of no use, she\'s completely useless.

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Out on the streets of Delhi, its time
for Vaijanthi to meet other women

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from India\'s villages. They arrived
here without any resources

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to join the migrant workforce.
It\'s a daily struggle for them.

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Their conditions aggravated by corruption and a
booming economy that\'s left the poor in (inaudible).

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Where have you come from? Jhansi.
All the way from Jhansi.

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I come here to work. Are there no jobs
there? No, there\'s a drought in the village.

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How much do you earn? Daily
one hundred rupees a day.

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There\'re even darker realities in Delhi.

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The sex ratio in India\'s capital is
the most distorted in the country,

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821 girls for 1,000 boys born.

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A disturbingly it seems that the wealthier the family,
the more determined to screen out the girl fetus.

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Vaijanthi checks out one of
the many ultrasound clinics.

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She pretends she is pregnant and
wants to know the sex of her child,

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this is the story she comes back with.
You just visited the clinic just now,

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did they say they do the sex selection
test? They denied doing it here,

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but said we\'ll give you another address. They asked what
my problem was and I said I\'m three months pregnant.

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They asked where I was from. I said, I\'m from
Agra, so I came to get the test done here.

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But they said it\'s not been done here. He said I will give you the
address. Then he said it\'s an offence to do this and we can be fined.

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But if you go to the address, we have
given they\'ll charge 5,000 rupees.

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Then, he said if they don\'t do it there, then I
will give a pill with which 100% I guarantee you,

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you will have a son. I will give
you that medicine for free.

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[sil.]

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Vaijanthi\'s search takes her
to a remote corner of India.

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She sets off on a ten-hour train journey

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to a village near Ganganagar, the
town in Rajasthan, close to Pakistan.

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Shy Vaijanthi is beginning
to enjoy traveling.

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Vaijanthi how are you liking the train journey?
After many days I\'m coming out of the house.

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Otherwise it was back and forth from the court to the house back
to the court. I was feeling a constant pounding in my heart,

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this is a big relief,
I\'m felling so relaxed.

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It said that several million girls have been aborted
in the past 20 years. How do you feel about this?

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I\'m very frightened. When girls
are killed at this alarming rate,

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where will they come from?
I\'m really horrified.

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Where will the girls come from?

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Vaijanthi has traveled all this distance by
rail and road to meet an exceptional woman,

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Jasbir Kaur, who refuse
to abort her triples

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or girls despite pressure from her
husband and in-laws. Fourteen years on,

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she has three confident and beautiful
daughters and works as a nurse.

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After the ultrasound, I was shown I had
triplet and that too three daughters,

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the lady doctor said we can
help you have an abortion.

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That day itself I made up my
mind that I would not abort.

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Day and night, I recited the (inaudible) my holy
book. I pray that my girls to be born healthy

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without any deformity. My husband
use to harass me and beat me.

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He believed that I would continue
(inaudible) I said to him

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that I could manage on my own.
Jasbir is just an other victim,

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she is a woman, who\'s made her life on her own
and she is perhaps a role model for Vaijanthi.

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You have done so much for your
daughters and struggled so much.

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You must educate your girls
and not lose courage.

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Don\'t feel alone. You have
your girls and their love.

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It is my daughter\'s love that gave me strength. Giving
a dowry will not assure happiness for your daughters.

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My mother had given me dowry.
Happiness comes from education

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and getting a good life partner.
I can swear that I\'ve not taken

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even five paisa from my husband,
nor I ever asked him for anything.

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[non-English narration]

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My dear uncle, I\'m very happy
to receive your letter

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and (inaudible) my birthday.

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Millions of girls are still out of the formal education
system, especially in India\'s smaller villages and towns.

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Jasbir is doing the best she
can educate her daughters.

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Vaijanthi hope she can
do the same for hers.

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What you want to be when you grow up?

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Doctor. And you? Airhostess. Doctor.

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The village girls that come here are getting to learn
a lot. Their knowledge in computers is increasing.

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Nowadays, computer literacy is a must in most
jobs. All the girls want to learn more and more.

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Whenever, I come to the school
and meet the principal,

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I tell him that these girls
are my entire lifesavings.

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Time to say goodbye to the
triplets and to their mom.

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Vaijanthi has a gift, a model of the Taj
Mahal for the girls to remember her by

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and she invites them to
visit the real Taj Mahal.

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[sil.]

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Back in Delhi, its time to check out a
popular hangout for the rich and famous,

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and meet women from a background
quite different from her own.

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Its the first time, a girl from a Taj
Mahal has entered a discotheque.

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My husband passed away.

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It\'s going to be four years and I have
two daughters. I started working.

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I started taking care of my dad\'s travel agency. I feel
the more you work, the more its helps you progress.

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It takes you forward makes
you forget your miseries.

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If you come out of Agra
and go somewhere else

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and meet different people,
it will be good for you.

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I\'ve come out of Agra now on this trip and I\'m
really loving it. If you liked it, that\'s good.

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You must learn to be happy for yourself.
It\'s like a lotus the more you open up,

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the more people are going to love it. Will
you dance? Yes…yes, we\'ll make her dance.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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Vaijanthi\'s next stop the ITs
success story of India, Bangalore.

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Over a third of the workforces
in the IT Sector are women.

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Vaijanthi is meeting top women bosses

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to see if India really can be a country
where young girls can make it on their own.

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You are in a top position today, did anyone
tried to prevent you from moving up.

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In fact, in India what I found is at

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a peer group level that is senior management
people, we\'ve never had a problem where some,

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the seniors would actually come in and say
you are not fit to at this particular role.

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It has always been youngsters, young boys you
know, with three, four years experience,

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who come back to you and say so what are your
qualifications and why are you here where you are.

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I found there were people, who
were not necessarily comfortable

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with women being more (inaudible) aggressive. Uh… the
same behavior which would have been accepted in a…

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and my male colleague, I was
asked to (inaudible) down

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to be more gentler on my side of working. So,
you actually create a new way of working

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to be successful.

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My main concern now is how to educate
my daughters in this environment.

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It the most important that your girls are
educated and able to stand on their own feet.

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Whether they marry or not, whether they
have children or not, they must be strong.

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(inaudible)

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[sil.]

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Bangalore it\'s often said shows how women can be
liberated and prosper in today\'s globalized economy.

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But again there is a
darker side to the story.

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There\'re people in this industry,
who get harassed by their in-laws,

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get harassed by their husbands for the money they earn and
in-laws expect them do everything right from morning 4 o\'clock.

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I\'ve also seen people in my own team demanding dowry.
(inaudible) industry, if you go abroad for projects,

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they go to Dubai or the US whatever, the
dowry increases because they\'ve gone abroad.

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And a lot of them before their wedding,
they definitely come up to me and say

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I want to go because I want to increase my dowry
and they say it to me and that\'s amazing to me.

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And I can… I can recall one incident
though I won\'t name the guy but

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you know, the guy came up to me after the wedding I said congratulations,
how\'s your wedding, I couldn\'t attend because it was in Hyderabad.

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I said where\'s your wife you should bring her to the
office, you know, he said I haven\'t got her to Bangalore

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because the father-in-law promised a house,
he didn\'t give me a house and I said what?

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Can India even become a
truly developed country,

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when it continues to
discriminate against women.

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Vaijanthi and our director have an appointment
with the minister in-charge of women welfare.

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We want you to meet Vaijanthi, she has come
from Agra. She\'s a young married woman.

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She was actually prosecuted by her husband.
So the two children you have are girls. Yes.

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Very good. What have you named them?
Shraddha and Aastha.

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Very nice. So doesn\'t your husband know
that what you reap is what you sow,

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you\'re responsible for whether
it\'s a girl or a boy,

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don\'t they know that?

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Science tells us, doctors tell us.

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But men are responsible for the sex of the
child. Doesn\'t your mother-in-law know that?

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[non-English narration]

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They know, but then society
just prefers boys.

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Female feticide has become so common,
what is the government doing?

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The government has taken several steps.

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The machines are meant to benefit
women, often people misuse this.

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It is known as the dark ages,

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due to this there is a
nationwide shortage of girls.

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This is a very… very grave situation. In many
places, boys are unable to find girls to marry.

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Because of this,

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the nation will soon face
an unimaginable crisis.

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Do you feel that this whole globalization
party has left behind the women.

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It\'s only taken the men forward.
Particularly poor women like Vaijanthi.

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It\'s not a secret, globalization
we have found by our studies

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and records and international awareness
that it is feminized poverty.

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Women and children below
18 years of age constitute

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72% of the population and it\'s really
not rocket technology to understand

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that you can\'t go into those quantum leaps
of the future that globalization talks about

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if you leave 72% of your population behind.

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Politics aside Vaijanthi is still (inaudible) on why
her husband so determined not to have girl children.

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Knowing she is not alone in her
dilemma has bought hope and sorrow

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in a video diary, a private movement.

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What crime had I committed by producing two
daughters and I committed such a huge crime.

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[sil.] Now, everywhere I\'m going, I\'m listening to
all these sad stories of other women, I feel so sad.

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I also realize that there\'re so many other women,
who are suffering like me, I\'d thought I was alone.

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[sil.]

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How far back in Indian History
does discrimination go?

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Was the Taj Mahal perhaps (inaudible).

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Finally, Vaijanthi visits Mahatma
Gandhi\'s Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.

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Gandhi had a different vision for Indian
women, he inspired them to play a major role

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in the Indian Freedom Struggle.

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[non-English narration]

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Gandhi\'s followers say that if he\'d been alive today,
Gandhi would have waged a nonviolence struggle

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to stop the killing of girls.

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Every woman must lose her helplessness and
start believing that she is not inferior.

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She is not inferior. As we say in English,
she is half… but she is the \"better\" half.

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I think Bapu saw women and feminity as
repositories of the good in societies

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and the good in human beings.

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In fact, his answer really would have been
that if he want to be a nonviolence society,

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uh…if he really want to lead a good life,
we can lead a good life only if we

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face up to the feminity within each one of us.
So even in some of his own self practices,

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he was looking to be in touch
with that woman within him.

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He would have been deeply (inaudible)
with this entire social surge

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of both the nation state and the society
and the civilization to acquire this hard

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militant masculine self identity,

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he would have fought it with feminity.

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Gandhiji preached nonviolence, but can one fight
violence against women without using weapons?

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A woman once put the same
question to Gandhiji.

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His answer was that for self defense, you
have to use weapons. In such a situation

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the question of nonviolence does not arise.
Self defense is every individual\'s right.

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It is important to fight for it.
One must fight for it.

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So has Vaijanthi decided whether to go
back to her husband or to get a job

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and bring up her girls on her own.
It\'s still an impossible choice.

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But at least now, she feels she
can make it with a clearer mind.

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After coming to Gandhiji Sabarmati
Ashram, I feel at peace.

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There is a sense of calm within me.
I will go back to Agra now

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and think about what I should do
for my daughters and for myself.

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I will go back and think about my decision.

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