222 Girls named ‘unwanted [Nakushi]’ to go through renaming ceremony in Satara, Maharashtra!   Mumbai: according to a latest news report, a survey done in the district of Satara, Maharashtra which is also home to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s, revealed that 222 girls of Satara were named ‘Nakushi’. The shocker here is ‘Nakushi’ means ‘unwanted’ in Marathi. Those slightly familiar with Marathi may immediately recall the common word ‘nako’ meaning ‘no’! But there is a story behind this unusual survey and finding. The practice of naming the... 

Dharhara sees fruit trees as banks, its girls as Lakshmi: now CM gifts it – Bal Kendra, Balika residential school Patna: Dharhara, a village in Bhagalpur district has made news a several times as a sturdy bastion of women’s rights which is rooted in its local tradition. Respect for the girl child is not something that Dharhara learnt either from modern ideologies or the enlightened intellectuals of today. According to its local tradition when a girl child is born to a resident of Dharhara, the family plants a fruit tree. For the daughters of Bihar’s Dharhara village, whose pledge...