Similarly to China, India is another country where parents would prefer to have a son rather than a daughter. This trend has lead to many Indian girls being named “Nakusa” or Nakushi,” which means “unwanted” Hindi. Parents in India typically prefer sons to daughters because of the high price that comes along with girls. Parents who have daughters must provide a dowry for their future husbands, and these dowries often cost the parents everything they’ve earned. Sons are preferred because they do not need to offer dowries for marriage; they receive them for their finacées.
The girls who carry these names are more prone to self-esteem problems, among other things, because of the significance of their names. Their whole lives, these girls have had to deal with the negative connotations of their names, and now they have had the chance to change them, legally. More than 250 Indian girls legally changed their names from “unwanted” to another name of their choice, therefore shedding their old names and the negativity that accompanied them.
Marion Gibney
http://news.yahoo.com/285-indian-girls-shed-unwanted-names-122551876.html
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