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Gender Discrimination In Baby Son By Manju Kapur

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Through the above quotation, Manju Kapur has thrown a light on the conservative mentality of Indian society about the baby son. Everyone wants the baby boy with as much affection and eager and no one becomes happy at the birth of girl-baby. No one understands the importance of the girl in the family and in the society. They forget that the girl is most important pillar of the society. Without women, men are incomplete, it is the universal truth boastfully rejected by the male dominated society. No one appreciates women endeavor in any critical circumstance but instead she got taboo of being waste. Such false traditions and views still exist in the society. Though women are educated and said to be free, they are bound everywhere in the chain of traditional norms and ethics. …show more content…

The author gives ample scope for the discussion on the gender discrimination existed in the society. Astha’s mother says after after the birth of a boy-baby, “The family is the complete at last” (Kapur 68). The words exemplify gender discrimination existing in the typical Indian mentality. It is very tragic notion that the family remains incomplete without having a son in the family. The author emphasizes that the mother also want a boy-baby in the family by describing Astha’s attitude. The grand celebration of the naming ceremony describes attitude of Hemant, a modern, educated, liberal and foreign returned man who behaves like typical Indian man. It is very ironic that he believes in luck factor too. Kapur highlights the typical Indian tendency to believe in luck factor through the character of Hemant. Astha’s dream of having an ideal

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