In India, the girl child is getting a raw deal. Selective abortions have become a serious malaise which is creating an imbalance in the sex ratio. What is happening is wrong. I am doing my little bit to bring in a change into this mindset. This collection - celebrates the girl child, especially in Asian/Indian terms as the daughter is seen as a burden, more likely to bring dishonor, & dowry expenses, an expensive liability that will one day belong to another household. A boy in contrast will be a bread earner, insurance for old age, carry on the family name and is absolutely required to light the funeral pyre. In many households, the cow is more valuable than the girl child...

We lock our wisdom within ourselves and sadly let it go up in smoke when our bones are being reduced to ashes. I think and advocate that we should be ever ready to waste a little of our time with deserving instances and even people if and when we feel that a little effort from us will go a long way in establishing a more balanced and positive environment. Let us take every opportunity to be the teacher and spreader of good feelings and thoughts. Let us keep our doors open to every person and instance that comes to us in askance and needs us as a teacher or friend. If we are afraid of being involved then it is a mistake.

“I am tired of being told that to live a more efficient life I need to become a good listener. Open any book on self development spiritual emancipation, marriage counseling or management science and the same advice glares at you from all sides. All the glitches are from poor listening if there is any listening in the first place. Not a single writer, philosopher or guru ever mentions the other side of the picture.” This book contains diary notes for the aspiring managers & the professionals going up the ladder. This book is a collection of write-ups aiming to provoke out of box & lateral thinking.

In India, the girl child is getting a raw deal. Selective abortions have become a serious malaise which is creating an imbalance in the sex ratio. What is happening is wrong. I am doing my little bit to bring in a change into this mindset. In this world of double standards, this same girl child becomes “desirable” as a wife and Mother by some and by most as an object of pleasure, commercially exploitable and traded like a commodity; never a person.