One of the hardest things a doctor has to do is to inform someone that their loved one has died. Imagine living in a society where a doctor finds the hardest thing to tell relatives of his patients is that the baby born is a girl. Do not look too far away. That society is still vast regions of India even today. And Dr.
Ganesh Rakh from Pune in Maharashtra is just one of many Indian doctors who have watched the smile vanish from faces of parents, relatives and even husbands when informed that a girl child was born into the family. He listened to husbands talk about taking pills to ensure they had only boys. How they visited tantriks and godmen and conducted various rituals to make sure no girl was born in the family. He watched families give sweets when a boy was born and leave the hospital angry when a girl was born, demanding a discount from the doctor for the ill-fortune 'he had…
