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Twitter embraces Modi’s #SelfieWithDaughter call, skips grim gender gap

Twitter embraces Modi’s #SelfieWithDaughter call, skips grim gender gap

by The Daily Eye Team July 1 2015, 4:14 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 55 secs

Social media platforms were flooded with father-daughter selfies thanks to a message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his monthly radio address on Sunday. “In Haryana, a village Sarpanch initiated a #SelfieWithDaughter initiative. I urge all of you, share a #SelfieWithDaughter. Also share a tagline that will encourage ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’,” said Modi. The NDA government launched the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign in January this year in an effort to tackle the declining ratio of girls to boys aged below 6 years. There has been a decline in the Child Sex Ratio (CSR), defined as number of girls per 1,000 of boys between 0-6 years of age, since 1961. The ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign was launched to prevent gender biased sex selective elimination, to ensure survival and protection of the girl child and ensure her education. The cheerful selfies posted on Twitter with captions like “Meri beti….pyari beti….” and “Daddy-daughters picture time ..!!”, however, hardly had any mention of such a grim reality.

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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