Weddings - why we all love them! || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2023)
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00:00Still, in small town India and rural India, the day a daughter is born, at least the financial
00:07purpose of the father's life is decided.
00:11Cast in stone.
00:12Now I have a daughter, so all I am doing is saving for her wedding.
00:17So what is the poor father doing for the next 25 years since the girl is born?
00:21Just saving, saving and saving.
00:23And if he by chance happens to have 3 girls, think of his predicament.
00:28And now do you see that this fat wedding business is also directly related to female infanticide
00:34and foeticide?
00:35Because if a daughter is born, you'll have to arrange that kind of wedding and dowry.
00:40And you already have two daughters.
00:42And your means do not permit you that kind of expenditure the third time over.
00:47So the moment you know that a third girl is about to arrive, you kill her in the foetus,
00:53in the womb.
00:54Do you see this?