Click to play videoJaisalmer/Jaipur: A long history of female infanticide in Rajasthan hasn’t left many girls who could tie rakhi around their brothers’ wrists. But condition seems to have improved in the past some years.
In most of the places in Rajasthan, Raksha Bandhan is celebrated with the temple priests who tie the scared threat around everyone’s wrist.
But this year with an improvement in the state’s sex ratio, the people discovered the celebration of the bond between brothers and sisters.
“Since there are not many of us around we go tying rakhis to all of them from home to home,” says a girl from Deora village, Jaisalmer, Padam Kanwar.
The excited boys of the village want a rakhi around their wrist to boast about.
“We all want rakhis around our wrists so the girls celebrate it with all of us in the village,” says a villager, Shakti Dan Singh.
The villagers believe that the practice of doing away with the girl child began because of the dowry system. But there are a few who now repent practicing female infanticide.
“When the girls were not there, there was no interest in Raksha Bandhan. Even when someone wept when their daughter was leaving after being married, people would find it tough to relate to that but now they know what it is to have a daughter,” says another resident of Deora village, Ummaid Kanwar.
With inputs from Dinesh Bohra for CNN-IBN
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