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Episode 1: Daughters are precious
The first episode focused on the issue of female foeticide in India. The show began with some shocking stories of mothers who struggled to give birth to their girl child. The first guest on the show was Amisha Yagnik from Ahmedabad. She said that she was forced by her husband and in-laws to abort her female unborn child six times in a span of eight years and further shares her experiences to finally give birth to a daughter later. The second guest, Parveen Khan from Morena, Madhya Pradesh shared the story of her husband disfiguring her face by biting it, when she insisted on giving birth to a female child against his wishes.[29] Next, doctor Mitu Khurana from Delhi was asked by her orthopaedic surgeon husband and in-laws to abort her girl twins just after 20 weeks of conceiving. On the show, she said her husband and in-laws “took every wrong step to force me to abort” but thanks to her family ”I saved my kids.” Her mother-in-law who is a retired vice-principal from a Rohtak school, tried to kill the babies by kicking a baby basket, with one of the babies, down the stairs, but the child was however saved.[30]
The show claimed that according to 2011 Census, the rate at which the unborn female child is killed amounts to killing off 10,00,000 girls a year and there were 914 girls for every 1,000 boys.[30]The episode concluded with a song O Ri Chiraiya sung by Swanand Kirkire along with Ram Sampath.