[nukkad] On Killing Girls

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ON THE RISK OF BEING BORN AN INDIAN GIRL

If you happen to be conceived in India and are a girl fetus, you run a
terrible risk, intra and extrauterine, and may either never make it, because
Mummy and Daddy want you dead, or make it and get incinerated by Preetam
Dulha  while Dayan Ma supplies the kerosene soaked rags and looks on,
heartless and smug.

HERE IS A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF YOUR INTRAUTERINE RISK -
The numbers in small type are your sisters who survived birth. The numbers
in CAPS mark the kids who were killed, dismembered actually, because the
dear Mummy and Daddy chose to do it.

1 st girl - 2 nd - 3 rd - 4 th - 5 th - 6 th - 7 th - 8 th - 9 th - 10 th -
11 th -12 th - 13 th - 14 th - 15 th - KILL THE 16 TH! - 17 th - 18 th - 19
th - 20 th - 21 st - 22 nd - 23 rd -24 th - 25 th - 26 th - 27 th - 28 th -
29 th - 30 th - 31 st - UNLUCKY 32 ND - 33 rd -3 4 th - 35 th - 36 th - 37
th - 38 th - 39 th - 40 th - 41 st girl - 42 nd - 43 rd - 44 th - 45 th - 46
th - 47 th - KILL THE 48 TH! - 49 th - 50 th - 51 st girl - 52 nd - 53 rd -
54 th - 55 th - 56 th - 57 th - 58 th - 59 th - 60 th - 61 st - 62 nd - 63
rd - KILL THE 64 TH! - 65 th - 66 th - 67 th - 68 th - 69 th - 70 th - 71
st - 72 nd - 73 rd - 74 th - 75 th - 76 th - 77 th - 78 th - 79 th - KILL
THE 80 TH! - 81 st - 82 nd - 83 rd - 84 th - 85 th - 86 th - 87 th - 88 th -
89 th - 90 th - 91 st - 92 nd - 93 rd - 94 th - 95 th - KILL THE 96 TH! - 97
th - 98 th - 99 th - 100 th - 101 st - 102 nd - 103 rd - 104 th - 105 th -
106 th - 107 th - 108 th - 109 th - 110 th - 111 th -KILL THE 112 TH! - 113
th - 114 th - 115 th and counting ...

Ham sabh dharmi*, ham sabh karmi*, ham sabh gaye Ram*
Ham sabh jogi*, ham sabh jati*, ham sabh jape Nam*.

Hame hai khoj* us Anami* ki, jo payenge hargiz* ek din
Par kanya* hoke ayi bacchi*, to marenge* tumhe ae* miskeen*

Word - meanings for those who are unfamiliar with the Hindi-Urdu poetic
form:
dharmi = upasaniks, seekers of God through formal faith
karmi = followers of the Karma marga, Path of Wise Action
gaye Ram = those whpo take Ram to be their Guru-God and ritually chant his
name
jogi = yogis, those who reach the Godhead through discipline of the flesh
jati = those who grow their hair, jata, and follow the way of the Jatis
jape Nam = the Namis, takers of the given, often secret Name
khoj = search
Anami = the nameless One, often called Anami Purush
payenge hargiz = will certainly find, same suffix as har-dam, har-wakt,
har-bar
kanya = girl, female, virgin
hoke ayi bacchi = if you came as, bacchi is girl, baccha is any child,
bachpan is childhood
marenge = we shall kill, from Persian maridan to kill, murdah, dead body
ae = a poetic O! suffixed to a noun
miskeen = poorly, an Arabic word still in colloquial use in the Gulf, and on
the Subcontinent















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