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Let Girls Be Born

The 50 Million Missing is a campaign that is fighting India's female genocide. Visit our website at www.50millionmissing.in. For an overview of the situation see this article in the Australian journal Intersections intersections.anu.edu.au/issue22/banerji.htm

In less than a century about 62 million females in India have been killed at some stage of life simply because they were female: as fetus, as newborns, as toddlers, as brides, as mothers and and as widows. It is the biggest, ongoing genocide in human history which has resulted in a devastating warping of the gender ratio in India.

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Roopa with daughter Karishma

Roopa is young dowry victim who the The 50 Million Missing: A Campaign Against India's Female Genocide tried to help. Here is Rupa’s Story.

However the saga of female elimination in India continues. Roopa had a little girl last year, who is totally rejected by her husband and in-laws. Thousands of baby girls are killed annually in India simply because daughters are unwanted. This little girl Karishma, is 11 months now, and when Roopa first arrived at her parents' house a month ago, Karishma was literally starving. She was so malnourished that the doctor said another month and she would be dead. The mortality rate for girls under 5 in India is 40% higher than for boys the same age. Much of this is due to deliberate neglect.

The 50 Million Missing Campaign has a flickr site. It also has an informative website at www.50millionmissing.in Please sign the petition at our website and support our campaign.

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Apex award

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snowing in washington d.c

A poor scan of an old photo taken from my window in Washington D.C. one winter's afternoon. Recently the Times of India printed an article I wrote about an incident of when I lived in this apartment. Here's a link to that article timesofindia.indiatimes.com/LIFE-STYLE/Spirituality/Soul-...

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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2009

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