IN the run-up to India’s general election in April last year, bachelors in the small village of Bibipur in northwestern Haryana state rallied together and threw the candidates a curve ball: Find us brides, and get our votes.
Aggressive female foeticide has left Haryana with the country’s most warped sex ratio at birth. Male youth were coming of age to realise there were no women to marry, and were left with a few unpalatable options – buy a bride or stay single for the rest of their lives.
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