Feticide

development but children still become victim and they are exploited. Especially the rights of female children are denied. Gender discrimination against girl children basically starts with the family and extends to the outside environment. Female feticide, female infanticide, girl children marriage, child abuse, etc. are the…

The question of “designer babies” is one that is fairly recent and controversy of the topic starts from the very definition of the term. When one is presented with the term “designer babies”, Most people imagine a genetically engineered being who is less human and more technology. This false stigma mainly comes from the negative reputation of Genetically modified species such as food or animals. However, the reality is quite different, it can be argued that even choosing a fertilised cell as an…

Everything is white. The last thing I remember is how I noticed that my club mate Satoru's older brother Naoto, the driver of the van, was reeking of alcohol. When I pointed it out to him, he turned around to the backseat, to assure us that it's alright and that he's used to drunk driving - while going at twice the allowed speed inside the city limits. He actually even let go of the steering wheel to gesture his case, so the outcome was obvious. Why did I have to learn this way that Satoru's…

Indian psychoanalyst, Suhir Kakar, categorizes the dominant roles of an Indian woman’s life by condensing them into the following three stages: “First she is daughter to her parents. Second she is wife to her husband (and daughter-in-law to his parents). Third she is a mother to her sons (and daughters)” (Kakar, 1996). These stages suggest the roles of Indian women and show how woman’s identity never belongs to her and depends on her relationship with others. This depicts the serious problem of…

came to be seen as just another ‘‘television set’’ (Mitchell and Georges 2000). In Brazil, 3D ultrasound is used to establish and reinforce kinship ties (Chazan 2007). Ultrasound in India has turned into a sex selection device that allows female feticide rather than infanticide (Heesterbeek 2000). In Vietnam, ultrasound is fully embedded into the country’s particular biochemical war history and associated fear of malformations (Gammeltoft…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…

The Orange Sun, Bioethics and Praxis of Systemic Annihilation in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow ABSTRACT From the quasi-oral form, African Literature has cascaded through systemic phases in less than two hundred years of contact with the Western written form. It has migrated from that dark romance portrayed by western writers to contemporariness of self-reappraisal. The primary inclination of these texts has been the ultimate question. What have we achieved with our independence? The unsavoury…