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No country for young girls? / produced & directed by Nupur Basa ; produced by TVE.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 6 ; program 3.
- Life 6 ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Tamil
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--India.
- Abortion.
- Sex preselection.
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Children.
- Social conditions.
- India.
- Children--India--Social conditions.
- Globalization--Social aspects--India.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (27 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Narration in English. Dialogue in English, Tamil with English voice-overs.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Twenty-seven year old Vyjanthi lives in the Indian city of Agra, in the shadow of the Taj Mahal built in honor of a beautiful woman. Already mother to one three year old girl, when she became pregnant again her husband and in-laws forced her to have a scan to determine the sex of the fetus. Told she was carrying a girl, they tried to pressure her to have an abortion, and after a major argument she fled to her parents' home. But she felt bad, went back to her husband, got pregnant again, and the same thing happened all over again. Now she's living with her parents, with two young daughters--and undecided whether she can make it on her own, or will have to go back to her husband again. Sex-selective abortion is illegal in India, but so widespread that there are many more boys than girls, especially in India's more prosperous states. Vyjanthi wants to know if things are really as bad for girls in the rest of India as in her own neighborhood. Isn't India now one of the world's booming economies, thanks to its embrace of globalization? Life takes Vyjanthi on a journey through India, and films as she makes a disturbing discovery.
- Participant:
- Host, Steve Bradshaw ; with Vyjanthi Devi.
- Credits:
- Editors, Reena Mohan, Sotira Kyriacou ; series editor, Steve Bradshaw.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE, ©2008.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l6ncyg Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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