Sreelatha Menon: Magical beans for having a male child

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Sreelatha Menon New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 1:14 AM IST

The germ of son-preference is eating into the intestines of the entire population in every state in the country. The Indian girl-killing bean figured in a work of fiction by Lebanese writer Amin Maaluf some time back. The Century after Beatrice, a futuristic documentary of a journalist's enquiries into the truth of certain beans consumed in India and Africa which guarantee a male child, her encounter with a village in Gujarat where women no longer gave birth to daughters and a medicine industry which sells these gender ills in the garb of fertility pills

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First Published: Jun 08 2008 | 12:00 AM IST