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Anila ji and Amitabh ji deserves Bharat Ratna more than that a good investment to bring this infront of the people of this country to make this stop and accept girl. And Siro also deserves since this effort of coming forward is not easy, it's hard but true that most of them don't know what is right/wrong, but they did what was asked/told/believed. Hatsoff to all. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU ALL. LOVE YOU
we need God's heart, satan is the one doing this! he warned satan that he would put enmity between him and the woman. eve was probably more beautiful than satan for sure, as angels fell from heaven for him, but in the book of Enoch they fell for us to and molested women to have monstrous kids with them!
Everything about what that large group of young men did and how they did it makes me feel hopeful for humanity. The fact that they said they’d found a little goddess in a field made me burst into tears. Every day, many times a day, we are seeing and hearing about how it is the opposite. About how we are trash that men use and throw like trash into the fields and rivers and forests, even dumpsters and bins. It’s incredible how just one small story of opposition and good action for others (altruism) can strike such a deep chord. ❤
Until this terrible atrocity of killing our Goddesses stops, whether they are in the womb or out of the womb, how can India the land of the Mother Goddess, Shakti, Durga, Laxshmi and so many more, ever know peace and harmony?? Until we honour all our littel goddesses evil will continue to spread. This is the most terrible adharmic evil that is being perpetrated by our people and the karmic vibration of such atrocities, is unimaginable and will last many lifetimes unless we as a people start to honour our women and girls, who are the image and manifestation of the Goddesses we claim to worship, and protect and love them unconditionally as divine. Only then will we hope to balance out our karma and find peace and harmony in our land.
Irony is elder women in our societies have internalised the values that prioritized male children. They were also victim of the same system but later on played a role in perpetuating it due to social conditioning. Truly in those times "women were women's worst enemy".
My God, thanks to your father, that you are alive. I hate this terrible doury System in India. We do not have this pratice in Europe. I can't understand, why India is not stopping this absolut life treatening pratice. The sad thing is, that OLDER women participate full in this useless "game". Therefore, I feel, it would very important, to talk about this matter specially with old women. In the back, old women in India have often more Power, than old women in Europe countries. Warm regards and God bless you further.
@jenijanewilliams6033 sadly girls in china are more valuable being used in brothels than married. Lack of marriage partners increases the use of prostitutes.
That's not how people work, unfortunately. Deranged misogynistic mass murder as a cultural norm isn't something a population grows out of, even when they're suffering the consequences. They'll dehumanise and commodify their children even more.
My paternal grandmother once told me that she didn't wanted my younger sister. My mother was mentally and verbally abused for having a girl child because they apparently wanted a boy child. I was furious when my grandmother told me that. The nerve she had to say that to her own sibling. Whatever I realised was that wisdom does not come with age and since then I had determined that I will protect my sister and give her all the love in this world.
A good Pratchett quote from Discworld: "Look, just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time."
Its sad how the paternal grandmother didn’t know that your mother had nothing to do with deciding the gender of her baby. It all depends on her own son 😐
My aunt (mom's side) had a similarly terrible experience with her in-laws. They started treating her like a pariah when she had a girl (my cousin) while her husband had no balls to stand up to his horrible mother. My grandpa even had to tell him to "man up because it's the 20th century!" (fancy being called old fashioned by your much older father-in-law lol).
@@legolas7886 why bollywood does not take up these issues instead of making biopics to spread fake narratives of the ruling govt to appease them & spread hatred towards the citizens of India
7 Years ago, while 3 months pregnant on a visit to meet family in India, everyone was blessing me for a boy, I asked them instead to bless me with a healthy happy baby. To wish for a boy I felt as if I would be saying that being a woman is a bad thing, what was wrong with me? nothing! In anger I once mumbled , "sometimes sons turn out to be girls these days", I was scolded for my impertinence. I returned home happy to be away from them. Gave birth to a girl and now everyone loves her.
Women on average commit less crime and are less violent. This is not to say that there are no evil women, there are just less evil women than evil men. Why should we be less valuable if we are actually more friendly? Here in Germany where we where able to stop discrimination of women, more women than men complete higher education too and with better grades.
It's kind of disturbing from the beginning when a woman has to pay to get a husband (like sum of amount) and then has to do with all the chores, raise the kids etc. Even slaves have a price
Exactly my thought! I was like "you or your family pay for you to get a husband, and YOU'RE the one that cooks, cleans do most of the child raising". If they're going down that road, they might as well get a pet dog. At least those things can appreciate being cared for and will return with defending your life!
The dowry system: The bride's family are giving her away and, under the assumption that she is NOT WORKING, they wish to leave the groom's family with a financial sum that they are supposed to use to buy jewellery for the bride. FOR. THE. *BRIDE*. The man paying for her is like selling her into slavery. You aren't supposed to abuse your daughter in law. Anyways. That's the version my mom gave me. On her side of the family, most marriages looked like that so all was well. Her marriage to my dad? Not so much. [Granted, in our community I don't know of anyone who got married on a dowry- including my mother. It's not common amongst properly educated Indians, just pseudo-educated ones]. Personally? I've always held this theory that Ancient Indian culture used to be fairly feminist. Look no further than all the stories of Maa Saraswati, and the pride everyone has in Maa Durga. HOWEVER. India's been colonized (especially the north) for about 1000 years. Not just by the British, but by the Mughal Empire too. I believe that when foreign empires take over localities it can cause a general sense of fear, dismay, and disappointment, which can lead us to take out our anger on the 'weaker' members of society. The reason I think it's an important theory to consider is because for all we know, at some point in the near future, Western society could incur the same fate. A shift in power could lead future men to take completely reverse the course of feminism. We often say that women were uneducated in the past- that's not always been true though. If you were the son of a nobleman, you were educated. And likewise, if you were the daughter of a nobleman you were probably also educated- Mary Wollstonecraft tutored female children of rich people. My point is that I think Indian culture is interesting because we view it as inherently misogynistic (because it is), however finding the root causes of that, finding where the culture deviated, and finding ways to cure it might be the blueprint to preventing future collapses in social equality.
The last part of the video had me bawling my eyes out..that beautiful child left to rot in the fields and she survived against all odds😢😢...thank you so much for the family that adopted her❤
does anyone actually think about the guilt of the families who have their daughters murdered? the topic is nicly avoided. they don't get their hands dirty. why are midwifes held responsible? the low caste does their dirty work.
@@opheliacparadoxBut but saaaaar/ma'am this is the great undefeated andkhbhat/bahaRAT. How dare you criticise this great culture? Blinduism has been around for 300 billion years ma'am/saaar. We are very special and just respect our [m***derous ways] 🤡! That's the response you'll get from these folks!
They only do it because someone orders to do so. No sane person is happy to kill New borns. It só cruel.and disgusting that I felt my stomach ache when she said how they killed. They probabilidade killed hundreds maybe thousands of babões durante their lives. Its is unbelievable, like a horror story. 😢😢😢😢😢😢 por little Girls, thrown to die from starvation into the Woods..
When i was born, the nurse brought my father to the NICU i was in & told in an off hand manner that its a girl.. she wanted to taunt him.. my father did not say anything to the nurse in reply & went out of the room.. later she told everyone in our ward how anger was the expected response & how unlucky he is.. when he returned with big sweet boxes for the whole ward everyone got surprised.. that has been the biggest expression of love i could have imagined to get in that time period in India.. my parents did not have another child, they never raised me as a son thet raised me as their Daughter, there was no expectation! i am among the few daughters of India to be that lucky! 95% of eldest indian daughters in my Zillenial generation have youngest sibling as a brother because parents wanted a son no matter what
Such cuckoo thinking coming from the nurse, a woman no less…women are the life givers idc who gets mad at this truth because we may require a man’s sperm, but that woman’s body and self care is the sole reason a baby makes it to this realm once conceived. In my future we say, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe”. Population growth isn’t waning across continents due to men being less sexually wanting or active…it’s due to women making different choices to not have children or more children.
Where rape culture makes you fear and hate men. Men like these boys who saved the little angel strengthens your faith in men too. May such men are blessed with boys who turns out to be like them. And, may God give them more power and health and strength.
With the headlines seen so often in India, I honestly wasn't aware there are kind and gentle men with good hearts there. It is not so easy to be that way without a good role model.
I was in India about 6 years ago and travelling to Agra by train and met a gentleman who was saving these baby girls, at the time a lot were being dumped in garbage piles, in woods etc , and he was getting them adopted by other people. The condition of some of these babies was horrible and were in horrific condition and he explained in detail how they had been found and the injuries some had suffered as a result. I have never forgotten.
The suffering of those girls and women will be deep throughout life. I am so sorry about this. The insecurity and need left from this rejection and left to die experience is overwhelming. I know some of it from personal experience. Many boys grow up needy also when raised by mothers who were raped or abused, who,s nurturing connection with nature of being was so severed. Some of these boys grow up with profound insecurity and rage against women. There are the foundations for rape, dowries, forced marriage, child abuse. Babies need love and the enough is enough of their needs available from BEFORE conception. Our experience of conception and time in utero, from when we were a growing dot, to attachment in the womb, to birth and infancy are 'known' in our bodies and deeper consciousness, rendered 'unconscious and sick' because these truths are often hidden, unspoken, lied about. Love to everyone.
Yes, this man and those who help him are special and deserving of celebration, but don't believe the current narrative that tells you good men are rare. They may not be doing heroic things, but there are still lots and lots of men all over the world who do their best for their loved ones and those around them. Good men are not rare, you just don't hear about them much. (And no, I'm not a man.)
Monica has turned out to be such a brave, happy and intelligent lady. Im so proud of all the people who helped rescue her and kudos to the family who adopted. You can see shes been loved so much. What a loss for her biological parents! Im so proud of monica
If she had been with her biological parents, she would never be what she is now. She would had continued to be poor and uneducated. She would had continued to be look on as a burden.
The mothers of these babies cried, its the fathers who did not want them for financial reasons. Amazingly, the poor who had the least money did not do it. I hope Monica's parents see her and feel bad.
There is no harm to the biological parents. If she had not been adopted, she would have been married at the age of 16-17 and would have had 4 children by now
@@GenevieveWaller-pk3xg Because the poor never expected to have big dowries anyway. They are expected to marry within their own caste and they are all poor.
In many Asian countries, boys are preferred over girls. My mom was born as the fourth daughter into the family. Her mom asked the mother-in-law to drown my mother in the chamber pot. But my great grandmother saved my mom and said she is the fairest of all her grandchildren. Bless her soul.
So sad story with happy ending. My mom is the forth daughter like yours, but she wasn’t alone at birth her baby twin brother was born dead of asphyxiation. I remember my grandma told the boy should have survived. It made me sad at that moment. After my mom three years later my uncle was born. Still they were blessed by son.
All these great awards like Bharta Ratna and Padma Sri is given to stupid Bollywood like Fekta Kapoor. Anilaji is an ideal candidate for this award... I would say she deserves even Noble Prize. ❤
Not even for a second could I stop my tears!! I had to watch the whole documentary in parts because it was so overwhelming. I would like to extend my gratitude to Amitabh sir, Anila ji, the midwives that could redeem the wrongdoing through their action by saving the child and the family of Monica that raised her.
How does it make sense for the woman to bring dowry with her when she'll be the one doing most of the chores and bearing the babies? So she's paying the husband's family for working/enslaving herself? It's not adding up.
@@sarahharris2729they work just as a man does plus a woman can bear a child and more. Despicable people, it’s like they are blind to what they have and are choosing to throw away.
The grandfather feels the same way. This system was created by men. It's just that the men don't speak to the daughter-in-law about baby matters as they consider it a 'women's issue'.
@@Ri57490 A lot of abuse like that seems to have these kind of "partitioning" where the top is applying pressure to archive a certain result (ie: sons, no daughters) but either specifically say how to achieve it, or will not be in the room so they are removed from the reality. Then you have the "middle management" here the grandmothers who do get their hands dirty, but can tell themselves they had to.
By the authority of Muhammad ( pbuh peace and blessing of Allah be upon him prohibited the killing of little girls with sever punishment Allah says in Quran “ when the little who was buried alive will ask for what reason , sin was I killed” Indos should shun evil practices and embrace Islam, submission to will o their creator and save themselves form the punishment of fire 🔥 may Allah guid us all to the staight bath Ameen .
I don't think Amitabh ji is doing this for an award. He is motivated by the desire to serve humanity which unfortunately many of us are lacking. Thank you Amitabhji for this. This is emotionally overwhelming.
My grandfather was a police at the time of Nizam when he was on night duty he also found a baby girl in a clay pot He brings her to home and raised her with own kids children later we found that he investigate about the child and found her mother but her mother refused to take her back because fear of her husband. My grand father did not say anything about this to anyone but after 40 years he told the truth to my phuphu about her real mother and help her to find her real mother again..
@@hollywood7702 Yes she was happy to see her alive and all grown up with a good family she also ask her to forgiveness and told her the truth because she already had tow doughter before her birth and her husband give her a death' threat to her if she gives birth a girl child again he was going to killed her 😞 it was a sad story of her side too😔
@rajneeshkumar5718 Just coz one earns a salary or has a job, how can any man feel entitled to a payment to keep a woman? Earn your bread and not snatch it. Marriage is not some get-rich-quick schem, dude. Just stop justifying dowry and don't take/give any. That's it!
What's especially sad is that dowry was originally meant to give women an inheritance and independence of their own, separate from the new family they were marrying into. 500+ years ago in India anything included in the dowry, especially land, was put the Bride's name. Be fascinating to find out how and when that changed to the ripe-for-abuse custom today.
@@rajneeshkumar5718uh? As far as I know , rickshaw pullers get married as well. Didn't the rickshaw pullers wife parents didn't look for a high earning groom??? If that was the case then 90% of men with low income would be bachelors which isn't. Bring better arguments for the sorry excuse which is dowry.
Hatsoff for making a single documentary and spending on it for so many years . Salute to all those who make documentaries..which bring out the truth of society
To every guy who asks for dowry, or doesn't stand against their family when they demand 'tilak', know that because of people like you, an innocent girl loses her life before she even understands what is life, know that you're the part of the problem just as much as the people putting salt in the infant's mouth. Atleast they repent, while you take pride in getting the biggest amount in dahej from that one person you claim to love.
Do share the link of this very credible data you randomly came up with. Hope it's not from one of those Andrew tate fan pages.@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 also notice how whenever basic human right to even live for women is talked about, men simply can't stop themselves from screaming omg what about me though? Like dude, this whataboutary fallacies you use shows you have lost the logic and the argument. Also, if you feel exploited by women, just leave us be, we as women want nothing more than staying a mile away from men who have congenital inability for retrospection and suffer from narcissism.
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 do share the link of this very credible data you have shared about 74% cases being false ( hoping it's not from any reddit Andrew tate fan pages)
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 notice how everywhere women's basic right to even live is talked about, narcissistic men can't stop themselves from screaming but what about me though? Like dude, this whataboutary fallacies you use is not helping you win any logical argument. If you feel so exploited, we as women would want nothing more from men with congenital intellectual inability to retrospect to stay a mile away from us. Win- win for both parties?
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 do share the link of this very credible data you have shared about 74% cases being false (hoping it's not from any reddit Andrew tate fan pages)
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 notice how anywhere women's basic right to even live is talked about, narcissistic men can't stop themselves from screaming but what about me though? Like dude, these whataboutary fallacies you use is not helping you win any logical argument. If you feel so exploited, we as women would want nothing more from men with congenital intellectual inability to retrospect to stay a mile away from us. Win- win for both parties?
How is Monica so sweet and optimistic? What an absolute joy she is. (Perhaps unsurprising - her adoptive parents also seem like angels, and she clearly takes after them.) This is such a tragic - yet also touching - documentary.
No one is commenting the upper caste brahmins, rajputs, baniyas who committed such heinous crimes. She said, those were upper caste people and none of the lower caste who killed these children. If they committed this crime they are not afraid of any God.
Also the moral crime of putting the pressure on the midwives to kill babies against their will. What a horrible situation to be put in as a young, vulnerable girl.
They are not upper cast, none of them are Brahmins they are all low ppl, Brahmins r Enlightened souls not jivas. These ppl claim to be the 4 cast only to trick ppl and cheat them
Part of our history. The RSS chief Golwalkar wrote "Today experiments in cross-breeding are made only on animals. But the courage to make such experiments on human beings is not shown even by the so-called modern scientist of today. If some human cross-breeding is seen today it is the result not of scientific experiments but of carnal lust. Now let us see the experiments our ancestors made in this sphere. In an effort to better the human species through cross-breeding the Namboodri Brahamanas of the North were settled in Kerala and a rule was laid down that the eldest son of a Namboodri family could marry only the daughter of Vaishya, Kashtriya or Shudra communities of Kerala. ANOTHER STILL MORE COURAGEOUS RULE WAS THAT THE FIRST OFF-SPRING OF A MARRIED WOMAN OF ANY CLASS MUST BE FATHERED BY A NAMBOODRI BRAHMAN AND THEN SHE COULD BEGET CHILDREN BY HER HUSBAND. Today this experiment will be called adultery but it was not so, as it was limited to the first child." [M. S. Golwalkar cited in Organizer, January 2, 1961, p. 5.]
Journalism at its absolute finest, I was enthralled, educated, emotionally drained and appreciative. This was storytelling with love. My feelings for the midwives was left very conflicted. As a retired, Canadian nurse and the proud mom of a daughter it broke my heart but left me hopeful that perhaps time is changing things. I hope this documentary is widely shown in all parts of the world.
Im from Katihar, Bihar. Im literally shocked after watching this. Today I'm going to interview my mom oil massager about her early days, and I have decided to adopt a baby girl in future
i did because my dad from orginal India descent told me all these horror stories. I tried for several years to adopt in India but, could not. It is difficult as a foreigner. I did adopt locally with no regret a little girl. I would have done so in a second again if it was from India. Unfortunately, i did not as Indian laws are not very good to understand at all. My father loved his 4 daughters and sons but, always favoured his daughters.
Siro has to much trauma, she can'teven bring herself to acknowledgethe past. Seeing Monica thriving is a blessing, thank you for making this documentary ❤
Some of that emotional reaction to seeing Monica has to be guilt. Siro clearly loves babies, knows how to care for them, and works very hard to keep her children fed. What an awful position to be put in, to murder those babies or not get paid, or get paid less. There is no human being who wouldn’t have a conscience gnawing at them. And yet also, if you have to choose between your own children and the newborn… How are you supposed to resist? Not only would you not get paid, but it’s also going to damage your reputation. You can talk yourself into doing it, but it’s not something that lets go of your heart. And then you justify it, you hear others do it, too, you consider it just a part of your job… Until someone comes and offers an alternative, and when you see that one of the babies you saved, how can you not sob uncontrollably? It is your good deed having come to fruition, and it soothes your conscience. All of this, all of the misogyny everywhere, it is so heartbreaking. We must fight it in its every form.
I too felt terribly sorry for Siro. What a harsh Life that had her to do such monstruous things .. which she regrets and feels pushed and accused for doing these horrible things. When cruelty gets normalized people tend to forget their values. She had her children and her famíly to feed...and high caste people preferred to kill their New borns
4 years ago my mom also found a new born girl on the side of a road. She was totally covered in blood and her umbilical coard was still connected. She was wrapped in a jute bag and in a very dirty clothes. Let me tell you that particular road is mostly used by tractors carrying bricks. It was around 4 AM in the morning. My mom usually doesn't go for a walk but on that day she decided to go on a walk. When she was coming back from there suddenly she heard voice of a new born. She didn't not even hesitate for a second she straightly went there and picked that girl from the bushes. That little infant was covered is such a way that she could die due to suffocation and if she didn't cry at that moment then no one could ever realise that an infant was there. That particular area is use by people only for morning walk. Sometimes i feel that how many would have died there. Then other people started collecting there and my mom called the police then that girl was taken to hospital after that she was taken to government orphanage. I feel terrified when i hear such incidents. Still the female foeticide is very common.
A friend of mine was adopted by a US family, she is beautiful and leading a full wonderful life. She was blessed with parents who truly loved her and gave her the very best. Wish all these baby girls got the same. I don't judge the mothers as they probably had no choice the men decide everything for them. Even the midwives as they were veyr poor and uneducated, probably scared of the upper class people. I do blame the men in the family who couldn't think of better solutions, they could have given these babies up for adoption, but instead chose something so abhorrent and paid someone else to do the dirty work. All while a mother is crying somewhere, thinking what has happened to their child, taken away from them. It's very tragic as well other women cry because they're unable to have children no matter how hard they try they always loose it. Life is a gift, nobody should be killed like this.
Nothing but tears...if Siro had so much buried in her heart, imagine the plight of the mother who had given birth to Monica...pain buried for eternity!...salute to you all!
This documentary moved my soul and heart.. Salute to a dedicated journalist (Amitabh), Anila ji and adopted parents of monica and Ema Dwivedi for their kindness to raise their children
Siro has such a guilty conscience, you could tell by that long cry she let out when hugging the saved baby Monica. Later when interviewed, she couldn't admit to her guilt. I feel it would kill her if she did.
It's sick how this documentary tries to blame the poor girls who are just trying to feed their families. Never once is the blame turned to the actual perpetrators - rich men who can't stand the shame of having another baby girl in the family. The poor midwife is probably the second person who wants this to happen the least of all, right after the mother who carried the baby under her heart for 9 months. The father is like "Yuck, a girl. Kill it." Persecute those men, not the poor girls. Buuuut, nobody's going to do that, right? That would be difficult. Blaming poor women is so much more convenient. The hypocrisy of that!
I think there is no point asking Siro, whether she feels regret murdering the babies. For her, that’s her painful past not worth visiting because the lives gone will not return. But at least she has repented. She is saving babies now. Back then there were limited resources that even if she tried to keep them, the babies may starve to death.
@@rituroych Yes. It really doesn't matter whether Monica was one of those she saved. Monica is a representation of every girl she saved. To see the concrete result of her sacrifices and the hardships she went through just to save them from their parents and to bring them to the safe shelter. I could imagine it wasn't easy at all. Especially, when the family members are threatening them with physical harm. And she had to forgo additional payment when she herself was so desperately poor, just to save one baby girl. I think the midwives who turned to rescuing baby girls were the bravest in the chain of rescue. They were poor. They were illiterate. They had no support. And they were in the frontline. I give them full credit. The video should give them more credit.
Even I felt uncomfortable for her. I wouldn't have been able to answer those questions. Minor issues I went through feels too embarrassing or painful for me to even think about, not to mention talk about. Remorse, regret and shame are bitter things to feel. I wish I can live without them but how can I be perfect?
Monica was proof that all of those babies were actual people she killed. She was hit with the realization that those babies would have grown to be adults who could make an impact on the world. Every baby weighs on her soul and it's dragging her down.
It really bothers me Siro was attacked. Women who are powerless and living in poverty, with children of their own they must feed and protect. They are victims of the system created by men.
survival is a huge motivator. The women are also victims. Even the men. They know their people cannot survive without women, BUT they will allow atrocious things to happen. Some societies opt for plural marriages to accommodate the amount of females. Some to infanticide.
Yes, Bollywood is not everywhere. I am writing from Berlin, Germany. But I lived for some years among orhpan boys from Mother Teresa. One of them wanted to be taken from me as my special fosterson. Stupid enough I did this. As much older ge became, I knew him from age of 10 years, as much prouder he became and demandes more and more finance Support. I came 2000 last time to the village, where still more than 150 of this orphans life together. Sins all of them remember me well, they told me on and on about the pround and most arrogant behave of my fosterson. When I confronted him, and also told him very strict that me has to respect every one in the village, SPECIALLY the women, then his wife had the courrage, to tell me, that he forced her to abort at least one GIRL CHILD. Sins this moment, not a Single paisa from me any more. Later he even treated me as trash and not good enough to keep the relationship with him. That is breath-taking. Now, his 2 sons are grown up and the olderst is married. I can only hope and pray, that his son does never abort a girl child. I hope for my son, that he will be able to see at least his grand-daughters one day. I have stoped all the contact, but maybe I will still let him know one day, that it it will be very important, never even think of abortung a girl-child. And as a christian it is absolut not alowed, to kill. ❤❤❤
Here in America there is also a dark history of violent misogyny, unfortunately. Pretty much the entire world has attacked women for God knows how long. It’s sad.
obviously highest population in the world these stuff tend to happen plus these things happen in China too but their government doesn't show the bad things cuz ofc that would bring a bad light to them
What a fantastic journalist ❤ I felt so emotional watching this and cried . The 2 girls adopted were incredible and such a blessing to the amazing new families .Thankyou for making this important documentary love from Australia 🇦🇺
Monica and Edha are the lucky ones and their families are lovely, what a great job the reporter has done highlighting this very sad story, it's heartbreaking!
To know that abortion is so prevalent and so many mothers want their Babies killed in the womb, a film should be made of how the Babies are killed in the womb. I have seen first, second and third trimester abortions and it is horrific and yet we accept it and fight for the killing of Babies in the womb! How can anyone hurt the Babies in the Womb?
I was 2nd born girl and my father distributed sweets in his whole unit. People were like is he mad or something! We are 3 sisters and our parents brought us up as princesses alhamd o lilah ❤
at the end, why is he still trying to pin the guilt on the midwife. the parents were powerful, threatened these poor women, who were dependent on them. they were more than capable of makding good their threats....why did he not try t find the upper class parents who could possibly have got their infants killed. the docu is lacking in that aspect. no engagement at tall with upper caste parents of unwanted daughters...
@@SarahDixon-tx4zxu r sad and equally backward if u blame these on ‘lower caste’. There should not be a caste system in the first place. Don’t blame these poor women who had no choice and were brainwashed into such practice by a backward thinking society. The parents were entirely to blame. It is their own blood they were killing. These poor midwives r victims just like those poor baby girls.
The midwives were absolutely NOT victims. The mothers and families are cruel. Everyone has a choice. Obviously, not everyone is choosing to kills their baby girls or there would be no girls left. So just these disgusting people are doing it.
@@merryweather4988 1. There is a cast system, like it or not. 2. I didn't blame anyone. 3. Educate yourself on what Karma really is, in practise in India.
@@evelynbarry5046 the midwives r the victims of a backward uncivilised society. They r poor, uneducated and been brainwashed by the society they live in to prefer sons over daughters. The caste and dowry system keep them in their place to do what they need to do survive. It’s easy for u with a full belly and comfortable life to have a choice. They do not. They have to do what they r told to survive. U can see that they changed for the better and saved the girls once they r better educated. It is the disgusting parents who actually pay to have their own off-spring killed.
Oh my God! 🥲! I was crying till the end of programme. I still cannot believe it is still going on. God bless the families who have adopted these beautiful girls.🥲! Best programme by BBC. Watching from America
Yes, your are right, to cry. Also for me, it's very shocking, to see a living new born girl left alone in the forest. But to be honest, it is also shocking for me, to know, that some American people wants Abortion to be accepted till the end of the pregnancy. When this children comes out, they might look the same as this Babys in India. Is it not also shocking to reslise, that we humans can think and act in such a way. We have almost same problems in Germany. But till now, no one demands abortion just before the natural birth of a child. We need to stand up against all this killings of inocent children. Warm regards to America ❤❤❤
@@Mariam-mn7xe nobody in America wants late term. Abortion is not about abortion being bad. When is it considered a baby? I don’t like the fact that the child at hospital will not be helped at 22 weeks but another one it will. Most people think 6 weeks is too early. I think 13 weeks & before should be permitted. Personally.
@@Mariam-mn7xe The "end of pregnancy" abortions are babies that have died already and the mother's body haven't understood that and just keep on going as if nothing is wrong or when something is so wrong with the child that nothing can be done to help it survive and it will suffer to death just minutes/hours after birth. They are children who were wanted, they have/had a name, a nursery set up already, their parents was looking forward to go home with a child but will now be going home without one and instead will have to bury it. If abortions weren't made illegal in many states women wouldn't have to go through being pregnant with a child that have died already, risking their own life and possibly not being able to have other children in the future. Abortions are healthcare and they should never be made illegal.
@alissalatour7332 you are simply lying or very ignorant if you think people in America aren’t pushing for and wanting late term abortions to happen. I have seen countless videos of people who say abortions should be allowed up until 9 months, and even the very minute before a baby travels down the birth canal. Just because you don’t want late term abortions doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds pf thousands of other people in the U.S. who do want them to happen. It’s sickening.
This only speaks of infanticide. Countless girls are killed in India in utero even now, even though sex determination of unborn child is legally prohibited. So abortion becomes the glorified way of doing the same thing. When my cousin was born in Gujarat, the entire hospital celebrated because she was the first girl to be born there after many years. She was the first one allowed to be born...
How does one take dowry and not feel guilty about it? And the fact that some men are defending it is even more shocking. The thirst for wealth makes men blind it seems.
I have a daughter who is going to be a year old in 3 weeks and she was born with a rare disease called Biliary atresia. She had to undergo a surgery and get a liver transplant. Even now when she cries my heart stops thinking there’s something wrong with the liver again. I would do whatever it takes to make her lead a happy and healthy life. Seeing this just aches my heart and sends chills down my spine.
I have read your comment from Berlin, Germany. I feel for you and send you sooo much blessings. Hope, your little daughter will get healed. If you like to see a wonderfull Organisation for protecting children in India, then fikd out more in the website from LIFE FOR ALL The Organisation is founded by Johanna and Simon Durairaj. She is from Germany and both are living in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Maybe you will find some good inspirations from both. God bless you and your family. ❤
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Being a woman in this world is one of the hardest things. The things we have to endure from the moment we are born to when we grow older and start to realise the injustices in the world where in our every step of our path we have hundreds of thorns digging into our feet. And its all because we were born as female and the world is gripped by the clutches of patriarchy. Its beyond heartbreaking to see the midwives in the beginning confessing to killing these infant girls but we also need to recognize that these are the products of systemic failures of society that have drilled discriminatory values into their brains. As a society, we can do better, for our girls and our women, we need to protect them from the moment they are born until their last breath. The heartbreaking reality is, that the world seems to be turned against us with constant cases of rape, domestic abuse, female infanticide and more heinous crimes targeted to women. We need to do better. Period.
@@iishikaa_18India is one of the most dangerous countries for women and girls, but in China they also have elective abortions of female fetuses. They now have to "import" wives for their spoiled "little emperors."
@@jturtle5318 why are you so worried about Pakistan it still can't change fact that India is the worst when it comes to women and their safety also that kitchen burning things happen alot in india as well probably thousands time more than Pakistan bro wake up use your brain
Thank you for doing this documentary. Never thought how rampant it was killing baby girls in India. I hope things will change for the better. God bless those who saved them.
It's global. Some cultures abort girl babies before birth, some kill them at birth, others give them up for adoption because they are girls, others work their daughters like animals, and others mistreat their daughters while treat their sons are princes.
This is so touching❤. There are millions of childless couples badly waiting to adopt one child. I really hope every child gets a hope and hearts full of love. Namah shivaya.
@@ananyanegi9423 It is not about foreign women. It is about the situation of indian women. Though the religion in India sounds like a paradise the reality is Harsh for females. There is no respect for life. What is Indian government doing to stop this?
I am out of words ! Extremely heart touching. Kudos to these flagbearers of change . A special thanks to the dedicated journalist for bringing out this story ♥️
This has got to be the weakest comment I’ve ever seen. Let’s not blame the Aushwitz concentration camp guards….they were just following orders. Is your soul that cheaply for sale? You always have the right to say no! You might die for your choice, but your integrity is kept.
@@rirri2386and if they refuse, the child will be killed anyhow, and the midwife will never work again, never help other babies come into the world. It’s not that simple.
@@karenneill9109why not work again if she refused they would have found another midwife to carry out the murder...despicable beasts ...no morals or empathy
Wow this was amazing. Seeing Monica it felt so good her positive outlook and personality clearly shows her upbringing by her foster family, how much love and care she has received. Amitabh Prashar for working so passionately on this cause which gives shivers. And Anilaji for being a God Mother to all the girls she saved. God bless her!! I am so glad that Indians no matter how many their short comings don't mind their stories being published by BBC who themselves have so much to clean up in their own house but keep shoving them under the rug, portraying others weaknesses so that world is unaware of the dark secrets of their country lurking under that rug.
I burst into tears 4 minutes into the video. Because I am a girl and girls lives matter. I can’t believe how many were left for dead and myrdered just because they were born a girl. I’m so lucky to be alive. I feel so sorry for those girls who never had a chance to live their life.
A very painful story …. hoping one day this way of thinking will end. I think you have done a great job of bringing this story, history to us. I am a mother to a daughter, she is my precious 💝 Keep all 🚺 save ❣️
Female infanticide is the main reason, government banned on gender revelation during pregnancy. Though, India has a long way to accept it's daughter and give same respect and opportunities like men of our society.
@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tswho is telling its non bailable as per pcpndt act Im a doctor Nobody reveals gender only few quaks n technician do for money
Pregnant women and their birthing of the child should be done under surveillance just to prevent these type of killings by family members. Invasion of privacy is least of their concerns as long as the murders are prevented and kids grow up.
I’ve had to watch this documentary in installments, maybe 15 minutes at a time, bc it’s so emotionally involved. What a great man to have spent so many years following this story.
I am crying to have a girl, and I have 1 boy, and I am pregnant with another boy. I love them both, but I always wanted to have a girl. After a few years, I will adopt a girl.
After having had three sons, I too was dying to have a daughter, and my fourth child finally was. I remember the delight finding out it was a girl when we had the ultrasound done. Baby girls are valued in our western culture, just as much as baby boys, and nowadays, in this culture, women often have it far better than men.
Same I have 3 boys. I cannot try for another baby unfortunately. I cried when I found out the 3rd was a boy and felt so guilty about crying. I love my boys but I wish so hard to have at least 1 daughter. I was thinking of adopting but it's so hard in my country.
This documentary has profoundly touched my heart and will stay with me for a long time. Its impact is something I will carry with me forever. Appreciate your hardwork Amitabh Parashar Sir.
The Siro interview was extremely disturbing he sld of left Siro alone about it. She had an ending and only wounds were just opened up again you know she thinks about EVERY SINGLE ONE she took.
True. I felt the last part of the interview with Siro was really unnecessary. It was not her who intentionally took those babies lives. She suffered a lot from guilt and later even saved lives when she was given some support and training. There is no way she should ever feel guilty for the past.
I'm uncertain how wise it was to reveal the identities of the midwives, especially Siro, who had long left that life behind and was living peacefully with her family and children. It wasn’t her fault-she was merely a tool in a larger system. If it hadn’t been for her, those families would have found another midwife to carry out their will. It would have been more impactful if Mr. Amitabh had exposed one of the families who forced Siro into the horrific act of killing newborns. I truly hope this documentary does not put her at any risk. I really admired Monica's courage and everyone involved in saving her life. God bless them.
That may be so but the fact that she had no remorse was very telling, I know life is cheap in these countries but if it were me I wouldn't have been able to live myself, and she kept repeating it was all in the past and to forget about it, those poor babies should never be forgotten!
@@suzannehughes8697 Leaving it in the past was her way of coping with it. I didn’t see that she was not remorseful. I feel very sad for the midwives who were in reality forced to do it.
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Anila ji and Amitabh ji deserves Bharat Ratna more than that a good investment to bring this infront of the people of this country to make this stop and accept girl. And Siro also deserves since this effort of coming forward is not easy, it's hard but true that most of them don't know what is right/wrong, but they did what was asked/told/believed.
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I wonder if Siro's girls are all her own...
we need God's heart, satan is the one doing this! he warned satan that he would put enmity between him and the woman. eve was probably more beautiful than satan for sure, as angels fell from heaven for him, but in the book of Enoch they fell for us to and molested women to have monstrous kids with them!
Abortions continue on everyday all over the world. O, what a shameful admission of the wickedness of the human race!
So touching
“We found a little goddess in the field” that made me cry. God bless these men for saving her.
Makes a change from what normally happens to girls and women there.
Everything about what that large group of young men did and how they did it makes me feel hopeful for humanity. The fact that they said they’d found a little goddess in a field made me burst into tears. Every day, many times a day, we are seeing and hearing about how it is the opposite. About how we are trash that men use and throw like trash into the fields and rivers and forests, even dumpsters and bins. It’s incredible how just one small story of opposition and good action for others (altruism) can strike such a deep chord. ❤
So true
Until this terrible atrocity of killing our Goddesses stops, whether they are in the womb or out of the womb, how can India the land of the Mother Goddess, Shakti, Durga, Laxshmi and so many more, ever know peace and harmony?? Until we honour all our littel goddesses evil will continue to spread. This is the most terrible adharmic evil that is being perpetrated by our people and the karmic vibration of such atrocities, is unimaginable and will last many lifetimes unless we as a people start to honour our women and girls, who are the image and manifestation of the Goddesses we claim to worship, and protect and love them unconditionally as divine. Only then will we hope to balance out our karma and find peace and harmony in our land.
@@herahagstoz6934They said that for the cameras.
I'm a survivor from that era.. My grandmother wanted me to be killed, but my father saved me ❤
Wow, I hope you kept away from your EVIL GRANDMOTHER most of your life. Did your mom lock the kow away in a nursing facility???
Irony is elder women in our societies have internalised the values that prioritized male children. They were also victim of the same system but later on played a role in perpetuating it due to social conditioning. Truly in those times "women were women's worst enemy".
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My God, thanks to your father, that you are alive.
I hate this terrible doury System in India. We do not have this pratice in Europe.
I can't understand, why India is not stopping this absolut life treatening pratice.
The sad thing is, that OLDER women participate full in this useless "game".
Therefore, I feel, it would very important, to talk about this matter specially with old women. In the back, old women in India have often more Power, than old women in Europe countries.
Warm regards and God bless you further.
@@simmychoudhary5585 really? And did you put for adoption?
My mother spoke of this before she died. She said "maybe when they run out of women, they will appreciate their girls again."
Yes like in China. Millions of bachelors and not enough wives.
@jenijanewilliams6033 sadly girls in china are more valuable being used in brothels than married. Lack of marriage partners increases the use of prostitutes.
Unfortunately they wont. Most would rather resort to kidnapping women rather than facing it.
the problem is always the MALE overpopulation 😒👎🏻
That's not how people work, unfortunately. Deranged misogynistic mass murder as a cultural norm isn't something a population grows out of, even when they're suffering the consequences. They'll dehumanise and commodify their children even more.
The journalist that spent half his life on this story - bless you. Thank you sir
@@Audioobscure I wonder if he is doing well mentally...watching tis video has left me so disturbed
Very commendable. Very dedicated to the cause. It’s a social evil. It’s happening in India even today. We need countless Anila ji!! God bless you
God bless him and all who follow his lead. This needs to be monitored closely till it stops.
My paternal grandmother once told me that she didn't wanted my younger sister. My mother was mentally and verbally abused for having a girl child because they apparently wanted a boy child. I was furious when my grandmother told me that. The nerve she had to say that to her own sibling. Whatever I realised was that wisdom does not come with age and since then I had determined that I will protect my sister and give her all the love in this world.
A good Pratchett quote from Discworld: "Look, just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time."
You were born with wisdom, God bless you.
Its sad how the paternal grandmother didn’t know that your mother had nothing to do with deciding the gender of her baby. It all depends on her own son 😐
My aunt (mom's side) had a similarly terrible experience with her in-laws. They started treating her like a pariah when she had a girl (my cousin) while her husband had no balls to stand up to his horrible mother. My grandpa even had to tell him to "man up because it's the 20th century!" (fancy being called old fashioned by your much older father-in-law lol).
Her own sibling? Makes me very curious to learn how our languages differ.
“We found a little goddess in the field. We must save her life.”
Those men are hero’s with beautiful hearts ❤️
They really are! So thankful that they didn't think of her as the parents and midwife did!
So precious.
I am so glad to see this wonderful people ❤
Thank you again and again ❤
These documentaries should be shown in schools and colleges.
@@legolas7886 xThe village e ok ders need education.
@@legolas7886 why bollywood does not take up these issues instead of making biopics to spread fake narratives of the ruling govt to appease them & spread hatred towards the citizens of India
And immigration officials and activists who want mass unvetted immigration. We have no clue what ppl have done that theyre truly fleeing from.
@@XetaXones Yup, you're absolutely right, they're the victim of their own stupid choices.
@@XetaXonesYour country is behind much of the world’s atrocities. The evil is in your OWN backyard.
7 Years ago, while 3 months pregnant on a visit to meet family in India, everyone was blessing me for a boy, I asked them instead to bless me with a healthy happy baby. To wish for a boy I felt as if I would be saying that being a woman is a bad thing, what was wrong with me? nothing! In anger I once mumbled , "sometimes sons turn out to be girls these days", I was scolded for my impertinence. I returned home happy to be away from them. Gave birth to a girl and now everyone loves her.
wow, good for you for challenging the narratives though. Be IMPERTINENT!
I hope your little girl has a happy life 😊
@@loretta_3843 thank you ☺️
Women on average commit less crime and are less violent. This is not to say that there are no evil women, there are just less evil women than evil men. Why should we be less valuable if we are actually more friendly? Here in Germany where we where able to stop discrimination of women, more women than men complete higher education too and with better grades.
In the uk girls are the most wanted sex. I don’t like it when people have a preference either way. Love from a midwife.
It's kind of disturbing from the beginning when a woman has to pay to get a husband (like sum of amount) and then has to do with all the chores, raise the kids etc. Even slaves have a price
Well said
It's insane when you put it like that, thankfully most countries have abolished it now
Exactly my thought!
I was like "you or your family pay for you to get a husband, and YOU'RE the one that cooks, cleans do most of the child raising". If they're going down that road, they might as well get a pet dog. At least those things can appreciate being cared for and will return with defending your life!
The dowry system:
The bride's family are giving her away and, under the assumption that she is NOT WORKING, they wish to leave the groom's family with a financial sum that they are supposed to use to buy jewellery for the bride. FOR. THE. *BRIDE*.
The man paying for her is like selling her into slavery. You aren't supposed to abuse your daughter in law.
Anyways. That's the version my mom gave me. On her side of the family, most marriages looked like that so all was well. Her marriage to my dad? Not so much. [Granted, in our community I don't know of anyone who got married on a dowry- including my mother. It's not common amongst properly educated Indians, just pseudo-educated ones].
Personally? I've always held this theory that Ancient Indian culture used to be fairly feminist. Look no further than all the stories of Maa Saraswati, and the pride everyone has in Maa Durga.
HOWEVER.
India's been colonized (especially the north) for about 1000 years. Not just by the British, but by the Mughal Empire too.
I believe that when foreign empires take over localities it can cause a general sense of fear, dismay, and disappointment, which can lead us to take out our anger on the 'weaker' members of society. The reason I think it's an important theory to consider is because for all we know, at some point in the near future, Western society could incur the same fate. A shift in power could lead future men to take completely reverse the course of feminism.
We often say that women were uneducated in the past- that's not always been true though. If you were the son of a nobleman, you were educated. And likewise, if you were the daughter of a nobleman you were probably also educated- Mary Wollstonecraft tutored female children of rich people.
My point is that I think Indian culture is interesting because we view it as inherently misogynistic (because it is), however finding the root causes of that, finding where the culture deviated, and finding ways to cure it might be the blueprint to preventing future collapses in social equality.
Even men don't benefit from male prostitution. It's the woman's father who pays.
The last part of the video had me bawling my eyes out..that beautiful child left to rot in the fields and she survived against all odds😢😢...thank you so much for the family that adopted her❤
😢😢I was bawling too😢
Me too
Give this man an award you guys!! He's worked so hard on exposing the harsh reality of girls
this is reality has been exposed ages now, you all do not listen to women you have to watch a man to believe it.
does anyone actually think about the guilt of the families who have their daughters murdered? the topic is nicly avoided. they don't get their hands dirty. why are midwifes held responsible? the low caste does their dirty work.
I was thinking the same thing. There was no truth or justice for these baby girls at all.
@@opheliacparadoxBut but saaaaar/ma'am this is the great undefeated andkhbhat/bahaRAT. How dare you criticise this great culture? Blinduism has been around for 300 billion years ma'am/saaar. We are very special and just respect our [m***derous ways] 🤡! That's the response you'll get from these folks!
@@opheliacparadox 😡
fathers are responsible for those crimes as well, but its always a woman who takes all the guilt
They only do it because someone orders to do so. No sane person is happy to kill New borns. It só cruel.and disgusting that I felt my stomach ache when she said how they killed. They probabilidade killed hundreds maybe thousands of babões durante their lives. Its is unbelievable, like a horror story. 😢😢😢😢😢😢 por little Girls, thrown to die from starvation into the Woods..
When i was born, the nurse brought my father to the NICU i was in & told in an off hand manner that its a girl.. she wanted to taunt him.. my father did not say anything to the nurse in reply & went out of the room.. later she told everyone in our ward how anger was the expected response & how unlucky he is.. when he returned with big sweet boxes for the whole ward everyone got surprised.. that has been the biggest expression of love i could have imagined to get in that time period in India.. my parents did not have another child, they never raised me as a son thet raised me as their Daughter, there was no expectation! i am among the few daughters of India to be that lucky! 95% of eldest indian daughters in my Zillenial generation have youngest sibling as a brother because parents wanted a son no matter what
God bless your Dad 🙏
Not really, speak for yourself. Come to southern India there's more girls than boys.
Such cuckoo thinking coming from the nurse, a woman no less…women are the life givers idc who gets mad at this truth because we may require a man’s sperm, but that woman’s body and self care is the sole reason a baby makes it to this realm once conceived. In my future we say, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe”. Population growth isn’t waning across continents due to men being less sexually wanting or active…it’s due to women making different choices to not have children or more children.
In South/northeast India, the culture is very different. U must be from the North?
@@mlg1279yes I am so lucky to have been born in North east India. We have our issues but at least we don’t have this social evil. Poor babies😢
Where rape culture makes you fear and hate men. Men like these boys who saved the little angel strengthens your faith in men too. May such men are blessed with boys who turns out to be like them. And, may God give them more power and health and strength.
With the headlines seen so often in India, I honestly wasn't aware there are kind and gentle men with good hearts there. It is not so easy to be that way without a good role model.
Bro watch the full video. Then talk
many women in india endorse this practice.
If they stop giving dowry, will it help?
And may them have daughters that they protect! ❤
I was in India about 6 years ago and travelling to Agra by train and met a gentleman who was saving these baby girls, at the time a lot were being dumped in garbage piles, in woods etc , and he was getting them adopted by other people. The condition of some of these babies was horrible and were in horrific condition and he explained in detail how they had been found and the injuries some had suffered as a result. I have never forgotten.
The suffering of those girls and women will be deep throughout life.
I am so sorry about this.
The insecurity and need left from this rejection and left to die experience is overwhelming.
I know some of it from personal experience.
Many boys grow up needy also when raised by mothers who were raped or abused, who,s nurturing connection with nature of being was so severed.
Some of these boys grow up with profound insecurity and rage against women.
There are the foundations for rape, dowries, forced marriage, child abuse.
Babies need love and the enough is enough of their needs available from BEFORE conception.
Our experience of conception and time in utero, from when we were a growing dot, to attachment in the womb, to birth and infancy are 'known' in our bodies and deeper consciousness, rendered 'unconscious and sick' because these truths are often hidden, unspoken, lied about.
Love to everyone.
Do they not try to make baby boxes?
'we found a little Goddess' - that choked me up
They left for a run and came back heroes 🥲🩵
This Journalist and Film Maker *ABSOLUTELY* deserves an award 👏🏼 🙌 👌 ❤
No less than the Padmashri award
I agree hundred percent, he has touched only one state,
This is the reality all over India 🇮🇳😢😢
The tears just won't stop. Thank you BBC for bringing us this story. It's one I will never forget.
men like him are rare and special i hope his family loves him very very much
Astarte bless him
How could they not! He’s wonderful ❤
They're not rare but they are very special ❤❤
Yes, this man and those who help him are special and deserving of celebration, but don't believe the current narrative that tells you good men are rare. They may not be doing heroic things, but there are still lots and lots of men all over the world who do their best for their loved ones and those around them. Good men are not rare, you just don't hear about them much. (And no, I'm not a man.)
There are many good men
Monica has turned out to be such a brave, happy and intelligent lady. Im so proud of all the people who helped rescue her and kudos to the family who adopted. You can see shes been loved so much.
What a loss for her biological parents! Im so proud of monica
If she had been with her biological parents, she would never be what she is now. She would had continued to be poor and uneducated. She would had continued to be look on as a burden.
The mothers of these babies cried, its the fathers who did not want them for financial reasons. Amazingly, the poor who had the least money did not do it. I hope Monica's parents see her and feel bad.
There is no harm to the biological parents. If she had not been adopted, she would have been married at the age of 16-17 and would have had 4 children by now
@@GenevieveWaller-pk3xg People of lower castes used to sell their daughters or they work as a maid from n early age
@@GenevieveWaller-pk3xg Because the poor never expected to have big dowries anyway. They are expected to marry within their own caste and they are all poor.
What a lovely caring man. Seems he made it his life’s mission and was genuinely and unashamedly emotional about the fate of the unwanted baby girls.
In many Asian countries, boys are preferred over girls. My mom was born as the fourth daughter into the family. Her mom asked the mother-in-law to drown my mother in the chamber pot. But my great grandmother saved my mom and said she is the fairest of all her grandchildren. Bless her soul.
So sad story with happy ending. My mom is the forth daughter like yours, but she wasn’t alone at birth her baby twin brother was born dead of asphyxiation. I remember my grandma told the boy should have survived. It made me sad at that moment. After my mom three years later my uncle was born. Still they were blessed by son.
Sounds about right ✅️
Same in Africa. My mom had 4 girls prior to having a boy. It was an awful experience for her. Smh
@@ategunalaafia Not true at all. Just say your country and leave the rest of Africa out of such nonsense.
At least thanks to the Brits they no longer burn their wives.
Anila ji deserves Bharat Ratna. Amitabh ji also deserves the best award for his journalism and humanitarian work
Absolutely right 🎖️
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padma sri
All these great awards like Bharta Ratna and Padma Sri is given to stupid Bollywood like Fekta Kapoor. Anilaji is an ideal candidate for this award... I would say she deserves even Noble Prize. ❤
Very true
This documentary should win award worldwide..
Not even for a second could I stop my tears!! I had to watch the whole documentary in parts because it was so overwhelming. I would like to extend my gratitude to Amitabh sir, Anila ji, the midwives that could redeem the wrongdoing through their action by saving the child and the family of Monica that raised her.
I felt the same and could not believe that young woman describing how she killed these little new borns. What a horrible practice.
How does it make sense for the woman to bring dowry with her when she'll be the one doing most of the chores and bearing the babies? So she's paying the husband's family for working/enslaving herself? It's not adding up.
The bridegroom has no brains.
Unpaid labour is not MONEY. It is not a paying job
Besides being a 24/7 unpaid domestic labor , she has to provide sex and bring up children and tolerate domestic abuse.
@@sarahharris2729they work just as a man does plus a woman can bear a child and more. Despicable people, it’s like they are blind to what they have and are choosing to throw away.
Exactly on Africa men pay bribe price to the women families or you can’t get a wife
It's always the "grandmother's" a lady cursing another lady for having a girl. Shame on them!
Internalised mysoginism is no joke
The grandfather feels the same way. This system was created by men. It's just that the men don't speak to the daughter-in-law about baby matters as they consider it a 'women's issue'.
A lot of these deaths are called upon by the “fathers” themselves while the mom sits there crying
@@Ri57490 A lot of abuse like that seems to have these kind of "partitioning" where the top is applying pressure to archive a certain result (ie: sons, no daughters) but either specifically say how to achieve it, or will not be in the room so they are removed from the reality. Then you have the "middle management" here the grandmothers who do get their hands dirty, but can tell themselves they had to.
thank you to all the people involved in trying to put an end to infanticide, absolutely heartbreaking.
Femicide
By the authority of Muhammad ( pbuh peace and blessing of Allah be upon him prohibited the killing of little girls with sever punishment Allah says in Quran “ when the little who was buried alive will ask for what reason , sin was I killed” Indos should shun evil practices and embrace Islam, submission to will o their creator and save themselves form the punishment of fire 🔥 may Allah guid us all to the staight bath Ameen .
Not infanticide if they don’t kill boys. FEMICIDE you mean
This has got to be one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Thank you Amitabh, Anila, and the midwives
As the mother of five little girls, the opening scene broke my heart.
I also have 5 gir,so they are wonderful ❤
I have just one but she is my only child.
I don't think Amitabh ji is doing this for an award. He is motivated by the desire to serve humanity which unfortunately many of us are lacking. Thank you Amitabhji for this. This is emotionally overwhelming.
Very heart touching and emotional.
..and where we lack it, it is due to this mindlessness and the insecurity of it experienced in infancy, from conception on, we are experiencing.
I agree. No one does this heartbreaking work for 30+ years for an award.
My grandfather was a police at the time of Nizam when he was on night duty he also found a baby girl in a clay pot
He brings her to home and raised her with own kids children
later we found that he investigate about the child and found her mother but her mother refused to take her back because fear of her husband. My grand father did not say anything about this to anyone but after 40 years he told the truth to my phuphu about her real mother and help her to find her real mother again..
Oh wow, what a great grandfather. Did the real mother meet with her after all those years?
@@hollywood7702 Yes she was happy to see her alive and all grown up with a good family she also ask her to forgiveness and told her the truth because she already had tow doughter before her birth and her husband give her a death' threat to her if she gives birth a girl child again he was going to killed her 😞 it was a sad story of her side too😔
I wouldn't have looked for real mother ever
Monica is so compassionate and graceful and kind. Brought tears to my eyes to see her.
It was beautiful to see but so devastating to realize how many like her were lost.
I wanted to salute this man. He is an angel amongst us. Anila madam is a hero aswell.
Dowry is sick culture. Period.
You can say that again. So evil.
@rajneeshkumar5718 Just coz one earns a salary or has a job, how can any man feel entitled to a payment to keep a woman? Earn your bread and not snatch it. Marriage is not some get-rich-quick schem, dude. Just stop justifying dowry and don't take/give any. That's it!
What's especially sad is that dowry was originally meant to give women an inheritance and independence of their own, separate from the new family they were marrying into. 500+ years ago in India anything included in the dowry, especially land, was put the Bride's name. Be fascinating to find out how and when that changed to the ripe-for-abuse custom today.
@@rajneeshkumar5718uh? As far as I know , rickshaw pullers get married as well. Didn't the rickshaw pullers wife parents didn't look for a high earning groom??? If that was the case then 90% of men with low income would be bachelors which isn't. Bring better arguments for the sorry excuse which is dowry.
@@rajneeshkumar5718and if babies are killed, that’s just too bad right? Omg you are immoral
Hatsoff for making a single documentary and spending on it for so many years . Salute to all those who make documentaries..which bring out the truth of society
To every guy who asks for dowry, or doesn't stand against their family when they demand 'tilak', know that because of people like you, an innocent girl loses her life before she even understands what is life, know that you're the part of the problem just as much as the people putting salt in the infant's mouth. Atleast they repent, while you take pride in getting the biggest amount in dahej from that one person you claim to love.
Do share the link of this very credible data you randomly came up with. Hope it's not from one of those Andrew tate fan pages.@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 also notice how whenever basic human right to even live for women is talked about, men simply can't stop themselves from screaming omg what about me though? Like dude, this whataboutary fallacies you use shows you have lost the logic and the argument.
Also, if you feel exploited by women, just leave us be, we as women want nothing more than staying a mile away from men who have congenital inability for retrospection and suffer from narcissism.
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 do share the link of this very credible data you have shared about 74% cases being false ( hoping it's not from any reddit Andrew tate fan pages)
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 notice how everywhere women's basic right to even live is talked about, narcissistic men can't stop themselves from screaming but what about me though? Like dude, this whataboutary fallacies you use is not helping you win any logical argument. If you feel so exploited, we as women would want nothing more from men with congenital intellectual inability to retrospect to stay a mile away from us. Win- win for both parties?
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 do share the link of this very credible data you have shared about 74% cases being false (hoping it's not from any reddit Andrew tate fan pages)
@@sandeepkumarsingh7344 notice how anywhere women's basic right to even live is talked about, narcissistic men can't stop themselves from screaming but what about me though? Like dude, these whataboutary fallacies you use is not helping you win any logical argument. If you feel so exploited, we as women would want nothing more from men with congenital intellectual inability to retrospect to stay a mile away from us. Win- win for both parties?
How is Monica so sweet and optimistic? What an absolute joy she is. (Perhaps unsurprising - her adoptive parents also seem like angels, and she clearly takes after them.) This is such a tragic - yet also touching - documentary.
I am having an "emotional 😭breakdown"... I am absolutely overwhelmed... 😣
❤
No one is commenting the upper caste brahmins, rajputs, baniyas who committed such heinous crimes. She said, those were upper caste people and none of the lower caste who killed these children. If they committed this crime they are not afraid of any God.
Also the moral crime of putting the pressure on the midwives to kill babies against their will. What a horrible situation to be put in as a young, vulnerable girl.
Probably because no-one believed that it was only the upper caste doing it, and that the lower caste weren't.
Stupidity is the luxury of the rich
They are not upper cast, none of them are Brahmins they are all low ppl, Brahmins r Enlightened souls not jivas. These ppl claim to be the 4 cast only to trick ppl and cheat them
Part of our history. The RSS chief Golwalkar wrote
"Today experiments in cross-breeding are made only on animals. But the courage to make such experiments on human beings is not shown even by the so-called modern scientist of today. If some human cross-breeding is seen today it is the result not of scientific experiments but of carnal lust. Now let us see the experiments our ancestors made in this sphere. In an effort to better the human species through cross-breeding the Namboodri Brahamanas of the North were settled in Kerala and a rule was laid down that the eldest son of a Namboodri family could marry only the daughter of Vaishya, Kashtriya or Shudra communities of Kerala. ANOTHER STILL MORE COURAGEOUS RULE WAS THAT THE FIRST OFF-SPRING OF A MARRIED WOMAN OF ANY CLASS MUST BE FATHERED BY A NAMBOODRI BRAHMAN AND THEN SHE COULD BEGET CHILDREN BY HER HUSBAND. Today this experiment will be called adultery but it was not so, as it was limited to the first child." [M. S. Golwalkar cited in Organizer, January 2, 1961, p. 5.]
To all the people saving these girls, every step of the way, I thank you. I hope you live long beautiful lives full of love and joy.
Journalism at its absolute finest, I was enthralled, educated, emotionally drained and appreciative. This was storytelling with love. My feelings for the midwives was left very conflicted. As a retired, Canadian nurse and the proud mom of a daughter it broke my heart but left me hopeful that perhaps time is changing things. I hope this documentary is widely shown in all parts of the world.
Im from Katihar, Bihar. Im literally shocked after watching this. Today I'm going to interview my mom oil massager about her early days, and I have decided to adopt a baby girl in future
Great🙏
i did because my dad from orginal India descent told me all these horror stories. I tried for several years to adopt in India but, could not. It is difficult as a foreigner. I did adopt locally with no regret a little girl. I would have done so in a second again if it was from India. Unfortunately, i did not as Indian laws are not very good to understand at all. My father loved his 4 daughters and sons but, always favoured his daughters.
I have lots of friends from that place 🥹 and it’s great you will adopt a baby girl
These women are disgraceful.
baby is a baby. no matter girl or boy. adopting any gender is good.
Siro has to much trauma, she can'teven bring herself to acknowledgethe past. Seeing Monica thriving is a blessing, thank you for making this documentary ❤
She was poor. They didn’t really have a choice. Wanted to keep their jobs.
Some of that emotional reaction to seeing Monica has to be guilt. Siro clearly loves babies, knows how to care for them, and works very hard to keep her children fed. What an awful position to be put in, to murder those babies or not get paid, or get paid less. There is no human being who wouldn’t have a conscience gnawing at them. And yet also, if you have to choose between your own children and the newborn… How are you supposed to resist? Not only would you not get paid, but it’s also going to damage your reputation. You can talk yourself into doing it, but it’s not something that lets go of your heart. And then you justify it, you hear others do it, too, you consider it just a part of your job… Until someone comes and offers an alternative, and when you see that one of the babies you saved, how can you not sob uncontrollably? It is your good deed having come to fruition, and it soothes your conscience.
All of this, all of the misogyny everywhere, it is so heartbreaking. We must fight it in its every form.
I too felt terribly sorry for Siro. What a harsh Life that had her to do such monstruous things .. which she regrets and feels pushed and accused for doing these horrible things. When cruelty gets normalized people tend to forget their values. She had her children and her famíly to feed...and high caste people preferred to kill their New borns
@@palomadealmeidalima6198 she was really traumatised by it...
4 years ago my mom also found a new born girl on the side of a road. She was totally covered in blood and her umbilical coard was still connected. She was wrapped in a jute bag and in a very dirty clothes. Let me tell you that particular road is mostly used by tractors carrying bricks. It was around 4 AM in the morning. My mom usually doesn't go for a walk but on that day she decided to go on a walk. When she was coming back from there suddenly she heard voice of a new born. She didn't not even hesitate for a second she straightly went there and picked that girl from the bushes. That little infant was covered is such a way that she could die due to suffocation and if she didn't cry at that moment then no one could ever realise that an infant was there. That particular area is use by people only for morning walk. Sometimes i feel that how many would have died there.
Then other people started collecting there and my mom called the police then that girl was taken to hospital after that she was taken to government orphanage.
I feel terrified when i hear such incidents. Still the female foeticide is very common.
Unbelievable, in which regions of India does this still occur?
@@user-lt1jd1ye3v cow belt region like bihar and uttar pradesh
Respect to those family who adopted these child! You are real family❤
A friend of mine was adopted by a US family, she is beautiful and leading a full wonderful life. She was blessed with parents who truly loved her and gave her the very best. Wish all these baby girls got the same. I don't judge the mothers as they probably had no choice the men decide everything for them. Even the midwives as they were veyr poor and uneducated, probably scared of the upper class people. I do blame the men in the family who couldn't think of better solutions, they could have given these babies up for adoption, but instead chose something so abhorrent and paid someone else to do the dirty work. All while a mother is crying somewhere, thinking what has happened to their child, taken away from them. It's very tragic as well other women cry because they're unable to have children no matter how hard they try they always loose it. Life is a gift, nobody should be killed like this.
No one is getting through this without bawling by mid way. Amazing documentary, thank you.
This brought me in tears .....may all the souls of those girls.. rest in peace angels..
Nothing but tears...if Siro had so much buried in her heart, imagine the plight of the mother who had given birth to Monica...pain buried for eternity!...salute to you all!
Monica has an impression of a strong, independent woman who was raised love, trust and respects. God bless her.
This documentary moved my soul and heart.. Salute to a dedicated journalist (Amitabh), Anila ji and adopted parents of monica and Ema Dwivedi for their kindness to raise their children
the reporter is outstanding he is feeling so much with these baby girls . god bless him
Siro has such a guilty conscience, you could tell by that long cry she let out when hugging the saved baby Monica. Later when interviewed, she couldn't admit to her guilt. I feel it would kill her if she did.
It's sick how this documentary tries to blame the poor girls who are just trying to feed their families. Never once is the blame turned to the actual perpetrators - rich men who can't stand the shame of having another baby girl in the family. The poor midwife is probably the second person who wants this to happen the least of all, right after the mother who carried the baby under her heart for 9 months. The father is like "Yuck, a girl. Kill it." Persecute those men, not the poor girls. Buuuut, nobody's going to do that, right? That would be difficult. Blaming poor women is so much more convenient. The hypocrisy of that!
@@user-sm6nu5lz1q I agree 100%. It sounds like it's also the grandparents to blame, but everyone involved should be held to account 😥
I think there is no point asking Siro, whether she feels regret murdering the babies. For her, that’s her painful past not worth visiting because the lives gone will not return. But at least she has repented. She is saving babies now. Back then there were limited resources that even if she tried to keep them, the babies may starve to death.
Completely agree. Siro breaking down showcased the weight and guilt lifted off of her.
I wailed.. thanks for the comment
@@rituroych Yes. It really doesn't matter whether Monica was one of those she saved. Monica is a representation of every girl she saved. To see the concrete result of her sacrifices and the hardships she went through just to save them from their parents and to bring them to the safe shelter. I could imagine it wasn't easy at all. Especially, when the family members are threatening them with physical harm. And she had to forgo additional payment when she herself was so desperately poor, just to save one baby girl.
I think the midwives who turned to rescuing baby girls were the bravest in the chain of rescue. They were poor. They were illiterate. They had no support. And they were in the frontline. I give them full credit. The video should give them more credit.
Even I felt uncomfortable for her. I wouldn't have been able to answer those questions. Minor issues I went through feels too embarrassing or painful for me to even think about, not to mention talk about. Remorse, regret and shame are bitter things to feel. I wish I can live without them but how can I be perfect?
No matter what you do not kill!
I think the midwife cried so hard because she was thinking of the ones she did not save. The guilt has to be crushing.
Guilt ??? There is no justification to murdering helpless kids
@@karishmasuri3229I agree and and that is why I believe if she has any kind of conscience left it must be terrible to carry that guilt.
Her guilt was overwhelming her. She had to be thinking of all of the baby girls’ lives that she ended.
She’s a cold, cold woman despite those tears that she won’t admit she’s crying because of her being a m****r.
Monica was proof that all of those babies were actual people she killed. She was hit with the realization that those babies would have grown to be adults who could make an impact on the world. Every baby weighs on her soul and it's dragging her down.
As a mommy myself: this breaks my heart. We are the 'Lifegivers'. Why are we less, just because?
Because men.
Because of society..
@@leahlasalla1859 Those young men saved that little girl, why blame all the men? 😢
@@Deedlanger who else is responsible? Space aliens?
@@DeedlangerHere comes the "not all men" argument again...
It really bothers me Siro was attacked. Women who are powerless and living in poverty, with children of their own they must feed and protect. They are victims of the system created by men.
The upper caste families requesting or ordering the midwives to kill are the worst, yet remain anonymous.
survival is a huge motivator. The women are also victims. Even the men. They know their people cannot survive without women, BUT they will allow atrocious things to happen. Some societies opt for plural marriages to accommodate the amount of females. Some to infanticide.
When was she attacked? Do you mean the interview?
Siro is traumatized. It was painful to watch her reaction when she met Monica, although it could also be healing.
This type of reporter still available in india😮.
The great reporter you are sir.❤❤
All are possible your heart work. 🎉🎉
I watched 2 time...😢😢
This is high-quality journalism deserving of a Pulitzer, Incredibly touching and a joyful ending, Thank you BBC
Thank you Mr Parashar. Namaste 🙏
This shows the true picture of the country which is far from perfect.
Yes, Bollywood is not everywhere. I am writing from Berlin, Germany. But I lived for some years among orhpan boys from Mother Teresa. One of them wanted to be taken from me as my special fosterson.
Stupid enough I did this. As much older ge became, I knew him from age of 10 years, as much prouder he became and demandes more and more finance Support. I came 2000 last time to the village, where still more than 150 of this orphans life together.
Sins all of them remember me well, they told me on and on about the pround and most arrogant behave of my fosterson.
When I confronted him, and also told him very strict that me has to respect every one in the village, SPECIALLY the women, then his wife had the courrage, to tell me, that he forced her to abort at least one GIRL CHILD. Sins this moment, not a Single paisa from me any more.
Later he even treated me as trash and not good enough to keep the relationship with him.
That is breath-taking. Now, his 2 sons are grown up and the olderst is married. I can only hope and pray, that his son does never abort a girl child. I hope for my son, that he will be able to see at least his grand-daughters one day.
I have stoped all the contact, but maybe I will still let him know one day, that it it will be very important, never even think of abortung a girl-child.
And as a christian it is absolut not alowed, to kill. ❤❤❤
India has been under a bad light tho, no one sees India as a perfect country, especially Indian women.
@@Annemarie_case143 India has as many problems as any other country.
Here in America there is also a dark history of violent misogyny, unfortunately. Pretty much the entire world has attacked women for God knows how long. It’s sad.
obviously highest population in the world these stuff tend to happen plus these things happen in China too but their government doesn't show the bad things cuz ofc that would bring a bad light to them
What a fantastic journalist ❤ I felt so emotional watching this and cried . The 2 girls adopted were incredible and such a blessing to the amazing new families .Thankyou for making this important documentary love from Australia 🇦🇺
Monica and Edha are the lucky ones and their families are lovely, what a great job the reporter has done highlighting this very sad story, it's heartbreaking!
Those tiny faces, tiny feets, tiny hands 😢 How can anyone even think of hurting them and that too their own parents!!!
To know that abortion is so prevalent and so many mothers want their Babies killed in the womb, a film should be made of how the Babies are killed in the womb. I have seen first, second and third trimester abortions and it is horrific and yet we accept it and fight for the killing of Babies in the womb! How can anyone hurt the Babies in the Womb?
Exactly my thoughts
Watching these babies abandoned and helpless is plain horror
Madam Anila deserves highest award from the government. Very few people who genuinely care for others. 🍀💜🙌🏻🙏
I was 2nd born girl and my father distributed sweets in his whole unit. People were like is he mad or something! We are 3 sisters and our parents brought us up as princesses alhamd o lilah ❤
at the end, why is he still trying to pin the guilt on the midwife. the parents were powerful, threatened these poor women, who were dependent on them. they were more than capable of makding good their threats....why did he not try t find the upper class parents who could possibly have got their infants killed. the docu is lacking in that aspect. no engagement at tall with upper caste parents of unwanted daughters...
Upper Caste being interviewed about such shame? This shame has been 'earned' by these low caste people, essentially that's what KARMA is!!!!!
@@SarahDixon-tx4zxu r sad and equally backward if u blame these on ‘lower caste’. There should not be a caste system in the first place. Don’t blame these poor women who had no choice and were brainwashed into such practice by a backward thinking society. The parents were entirely to blame. It is their own blood they were killing. These poor midwives r victims just like those poor baby girls.
The midwives were absolutely NOT victims. The mothers and families are cruel. Everyone has a choice. Obviously, not everyone is choosing to kills their baby girls or there would be no girls left. So just these disgusting people are doing it.
@@merryweather4988 1. There is a cast system, like it or not.
2. I didn't blame anyone.
3. Educate yourself on what Karma really is, in practise in India.
@@evelynbarry5046 the midwives r the victims of a backward uncivilised society. They r poor, uneducated and been brainwashed by the society they live in to prefer sons over daughters. The caste and dowry system keep them in their place to do what they need to do survive. It’s easy for u with a full belly and comfortable life to have a choice. They do not. They have to do what they r told to survive. U can see that they changed for the better and saved the girls once they r better educated. It is the disgusting parents who actually pay to have their own off-spring killed.
Oh my God! 🥲! I was crying till the end of programme. I still cannot believe it is still going on. God bless the families who have adopted these beautiful girls.🥲! Best programme by BBC. Watching from America
Yes, your are right, to cry. Also for me, it's very shocking, to see a living new born girl left alone in the forest.
But to be honest, it is also shocking for me, to know, that some American people wants Abortion to be accepted till the end of the pregnancy.
When this children comes out, they might look the same as this Babys in India. Is it not also shocking to reslise, that we humans can think and act in such a way. We have almost same problems in Germany. But till now, no one demands abortion just before the natural birth of a child. We need to stand up against all this killings of inocent children.
Warm regards to America ❤❤❤
@@Mariam-mn7xe nobody in America wants late term. Abortion is not about abortion being bad. When is it considered a baby? I don’t like the fact that the child at hospital will not be helped at 22 weeks but another one it will. Most people think 6 weeks is too early. I think 13 weeks & before should be permitted. Personally.
@@Mariam-mn7xe The "end of pregnancy" abortions are babies that have died already and the mother's body haven't understood that and just keep on going as if nothing is wrong or when something is so wrong with the child that nothing can be done to help it survive and it will suffer to death just minutes/hours after birth. They are children who were wanted, they have/had a name, a nursery set up already, their parents was looking forward to go home with a child but will now be going home without one and instead will have to bury it. If abortions weren't made illegal in many states women wouldn't have to go through being pregnant with a child that have died already, risking their own life and possibly not being able to have other children in the future. Abortions are healthcare and they should never be made illegal.
@alissalatour7332 you are simply lying or very ignorant if you think people in America aren’t pushing for and wanting late term abortions to happen. I have seen countless videos of people who say abortions should be allowed up until 9 months, and even the very minute before a baby travels down the birth canal. Just because you don’t want late term abortions doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds pf thousands of other people in the U.S. who do want them to happen. It’s sickening.
It is better to neutralize an unborn child than forcing it to live a hellish unwanted life which it didn't ask for.@@Mariam-mn7xe
This only speaks of infanticide. Countless girls are killed in India in utero even now, even though sex determination of unborn child is legally prohibited. So abortion becomes the glorified way of doing the same thing. When my cousin was born in Gujarat, the entire hospital celebrated because she was the first girl to be born there after many years. She was the first one allowed to be born...
How does one take dowry and not feel guilty about it? And the fact that some men are defending it is even more shocking. The thirst for wealth makes men blind it seems.
That's indian men for you..
It's wierd how this is the same problem no matter where ur from. When will women matter.
You're asking this on a BBC platform - the BBC don't even know what a woman is.
What I live in the UK and we don't have the same problems. Where are you from that you experienced this treatment?
When population growth flips into negative girls become more desirable.
@@SarahDixon-tx4zxexactly i see couple of comments like this … im wondering where else ?
@@SarahDixon-tx4zxare you stupid
4 minutes in and my heart is already breaking. At the same time, those boys restored my hope for humanity.
Thank you to all who supported to save these girls lives. All of you are blessed. I hope India will banish this dowry curse for good.
I have a daughter who is going to be a year old in 3 weeks and she was born with a rare disease called Biliary atresia. She had to undergo a surgery and get a liver transplant. Even now when she cries my heart stops thinking there’s something wrong with the liver again. I would do whatever it takes to make her lead a happy and healthy life. Seeing this just aches my heart and sends chills down my spine.
May you have healthy long lives
I have read your comment from Berlin, Germany. I feel for you and send you sooo much blessings. Hope, your little daughter will get healed.
If you like to see a wonderfull Organisation for protecting children in India, then fikd out more in the website from
LIFE FOR ALL
The Organisation is founded by Johanna and Simon Durairaj. She is from Germany and both are living in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Maybe you will find some good inspirations from both.
God bless you and your family. ❤
Hope she leads a long and healthy life
Galatians 3:26So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith
John3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord
And people throw away healthy babies for being girls while you are doing so much to save your child and give her a good life
I am so proud of the aunties and uncles who loved these babies and gave them life.
Being a woman in this world is one of the hardest things. The things we have to endure from the moment we are born to when we grow older and start to realise the injustices in the world where in our every step of our path we have hundreds of thorns digging into our feet. And its all because we were born as female and the world is gripped by the clutches of patriarchy.
Its beyond heartbreaking to see the midwives in the beginning confessing to killing these infant girls but we also need to recognize that these are the products of systemic failures of society that have drilled discriminatory values into their brains.
As a society, we can do better, for our girls and our women, we need to protect them from the moment they are born until their last breath.
The heartbreaking reality is, that the world seems to be turned against us with constant cases of rape, domestic abuse, female infanticide and more heinous crimes targeted to women.
We need to do better.
Period.
It's mainly in India
Down with.patriarchal abuse
@@iishikaa_18India is one of the most dangerous countries for women and girls, but in China they also have elective abortions of female fetuses. They now have to "import" wives for their spoiled "little emperors."
@@iishikaa_18in Pakistan, unwanted brides are set on fire in "kitchen accidents" and die, the husband keeps her dowry, then marries again.
@@jturtle5318 why are you so worried about Pakistan it still can't change fact that India is the worst when it comes to women and their safety also that kitchen burning things happen alot in india as well probably thousands time more than Pakistan bro wake up use your brain
Thank you for doing this documentary. Never thought how rampant it was killing baby girls in India. I hope things will change for the better. God bless those who saved them.
Female infanticide is rampant only in certain parts of India. FYI
What an inhuman treatment of girls.
It's global. Some cultures abort girl babies before birth, some kill them at birth, others give them up for adoption because they are girls, others work their daughters like animals, and others mistreat their daughters while treat their sons are princes.
This is so touching❤. There are millions of childless couples badly waiting to adopt one child. I really hope every child gets a hope and hearts full of love. Namah shivaya.
The Dowry must be forbidden!
Indian men will not let this custom die. Foreign women should think about it before dating and marrying Indian men.
@@ananyanegi9423😂😂 sadly indian men has more value than indian woman at global sphere. Keep hating indian men that wont change anything
it is best
@@ananyanegi9423 It must change. Is the government of India criminals?
@@ananyanegi9423 It is not about foreign women. It is about the situation of indian women. Though the religion in India sounds like a paradise the reality is Harsh for females. There is no respect for life. What is Indian government doing to stop this?
I don’t have words. It is all emotion. Such an important work of journalism. Thank you. These baby girls…beautiful.
Beautiful story, i couldnt stop crying. Thank you for making this quality, important program
Congratulations to entire team... i couldn't hold my tears back...
I am out of words ! Extremely heart touching.
Kudos to these flagbearers of change .
A special thanks to the dedicated journalist for bringing out this story ♥️
Can't really blame the midwives here, they were simply the tools used by the horrible families.
You can blame them easily for not refusing. They are accomplices
This has got to be the weakest comment I’ve ever seen. Let’s not blame the Aushwitz concentration camp guards….they were just following orders. Is your soul that cheaply for sale? You always have the right to say no! You might die for your choice, but your integrity is kept.
@@rirri2386and if they refuse, the child will be killed anyhow, and the midwife will never work again, never help other babies come into the world. It’s not that simple.
@@rirri2386 agree with you, they did not have to do it but they agreed to do it for a sum of money. Disgusting, horrible I despise these women.
@@karenneill9109why not work again if she refused they would have found another midwife to carry out the murder...despicable beasts ...no morals or empathy
Very touching.... Amitabh sir is one of the truely beautiful human being.
Thankful to the adopted parents ❤for giving her immense love
Wow this was amazing. Seeing Monica it felt so good her positive outlook and personality clearly shows her upbringing by her foster family, how much love and care she has received. Amitabh Prashar for working so passionately on this cause which gives shivers. And Anilaji for being a God Mother to all the girls she saved. God bless her!! I am so glad that Indians no matter how many their short comings don't mind their stories being published by BBC who themselves have so much to clean up in their own house but keep shoving them under the rug, portraying others weaknesses so that world is unaware of the dark secrets of their country lurking under that rug.
That's not her foster family. It's her family, her primary family, the only one she knows. Her parents brought her up so well.
Wow! This is one of the most powerful documentaries I’ve ever watched. Thank you for doing this, even if this only saves one life. Thank you. 😢❤
I burst into tears 4 minutes into the video. Because I am a girl and girls lives matter. I can’t believe how many were left for dead and myrdered just because they were born a girl. I’m so lucky to be alive. I feel so sorry for those girls who never had a chance to live their life.
In indian subcontinent life of baby girl less valued than baby boy thus disposable
A very painful story …. hoping one day this way of thinking will end. I think you have done a great job of bringing this story, history to us.
I am a mother to a daughter, she is my precious 💝
Keep all 🚺 save ❣️
Female infanticide is the main reason, government banned on gender revelation during pregnancy. Though, India has a long way to accept it's daughter and give same respect and opportunities like men of our society.
That's a joke! Clinics across India are telling parents and facilitating the terminations.
Baby girls’ births are seldom celebrated in Asia
I'm sure they are doing that but just for iur info, that's illegan and theyre liable to be punished under tha law@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tswho is telling its non bailable as per pcpndt act
Im a doctor
Nobody reveals gender only few quaks n technician do for money
Pregnant women and their birthing of the child should be done under surveillance just to prevent these type of killings by family members. Invasion of privacy is least of their concerns as long as the murders are prevented and kids grow up.
I’ve had to watch this documentary in installments, maybe 15 minutes at a time, bc it’s so emotionally involved. What a great man to have spent so many years following this story.
I must congratulate you Amitabh for working very hard on this story and bringing this great work to us..
Its great. Salute to you..
I am crying to have a girl, and I have 1 boy, and I am pregnant with another boy. I love them both, but I always wanted to have a girl. After a few years, I will adopt a girl.
India might be a good place to adopt😊
@@ew374 Cina, Africa and South America too...
So why not US Canada Aus England?! No child abuse there ? So why do they have Child welfare in those countries?!
After having had three sons, I too was dying to have a daughter, and my fourth child finally was. I remember the delight finding out it was a girl when we had the ultrasound done. Baby girls are valued in our western culture, just as much as baby boys, and nowadays, in this culture, women often have it far better than men.
Same I have 3 boys. I cannot try for another baby unfortunately. I cried when I found out the 3rd was a boy and felt so guilty about crying. I love my boys but I wish so hard to have at least 1 daughter. I was thinking of adopting but it's so hard in my country.
This documentary has profoundly touched my heart and will stay with me for a long time. Its impact is something I will carry with me forever. Appreciate your hardwork Amitabh Parashar Sir.
The Siro interview was extremely disturbing he sld of left Siro alone about it. She had an ending and only wounds were just opened up again you know she thinks about EVERY SINGLE ONE she took.
True. I felt the last part of the interview with Siro was really unnecessary. It was not her who intentionally took those babies lives. She suffered a lot from guilt and later even saved lives when she was given some support and training. There is no way she should ever feel guilty for the past.
Not to mention she took a beating.
I'm uncertain how wise it was to reveal the identities of the midwives, especially Siro, who had long left that life behind and was living peacefully with her family and children. It wasn’t her fault-she was merely a tool in a larger system. If it hadn’t been for her, those families would have found another midwife to carry out their will. It would have been more impactful if Mr. Amitabh had exposed one of the families who forced Siro into the horrific act of killing newborns. I truly hope this documentary does not put her at any risk.
I really admired Monica's courage and everyone involved in saving her life. God bless them.
I would have liked to see an interview with the parents.
@@jturtle5318they would probably have denied everything. They’re devils.
That may be so but the fact that she had no remorse was very telling, I know life is cheap in these countries but if it were me I wouldn't have been able to live myself, and she kept repeating it was all in the past and to forget about it, those poor babies should never be forgotten!
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Leaving it in the past was her way of coping with it. I didn’t see that she was not remorseful. I feel very sad for the midwives who were in reality forced to do it.
@@janlafournaise6505 nevertheless it was still murder!, a life is a life!
"We found a little goddess in the woods..." God bless that man