BS Murthy

According to the National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4) 'n 2019-21 (NFHS-5) * i) Sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years (females per 1000 males) 2015-16 (NFHS-4)  /  2019-21 (NFHS-5)  /  % diff  avg.                Avg - 919 / Urban - 924 / Rural - 931 /Avg- 929 / + 1.088                         ii) Sex ratio of the total population (females for 1000 males)  2015-16 (NFHS-4) /   2019-21 (NFHS-5)  /  % diff avg.                   A vg - 991 / Urban - 985 Rural -1037 / Avg-1020 / +2.926 Inferences i) The positive though marginal difference in the averages on both counts may be attributable to Prime Minister Modi's Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan. ii) Contrary to the public misconception, the rural population is seemingly more female friendly t...

  In the days of yore, land was the only resource available for man to have a say in the material aspects of life, and as for the land-less, neither ambition nor resentment was of any avail to get even in the universality of inequality. What is worse, as envy and caprice only make it worse, the wise among the have-nots learned to cultivate contentment in their minds to mend their resource-less lives, and even the less resourceful ones, relatively speaking that is. Thus emerged the old adage - contentment is the finest thing in the world - to lend peace of mind to the lacking millions by way of a stoical philosophy. Nonetheless, one’s reconciliation with the deprivations that contentment entails serves so much and no more for it fails to enable him or her to feel fulfilled, which is the essence of equitable living. However, the advancement of the world that enlarged the frontiers of livelihood began to afford material opportunities to the land-less lot, and that came to alter the gr...