Women, Where Art Thou?

I was talking to a friend of mine recently and he mentioned that he postponed his visit to India. The reason being he want to go when someone in his family gets married so he can have a fun time. Nothing wrong with that but the fact that all the eligible people being guys. Apparently it has become difficult to find suitable girls for these guys. It looks like he has to wait a long time.

Gone are the days when a guy has to say yes and then there would be a lot of calls from girl's families to arrange a match. Not any more. Everyone I speak of late, know more and more guys who are in the match making queue with a long wait ahead of them.

I personally know atleast 4 guys who are raring to go and get married. Alas! the girl is not to be found. The same story is repeated from my wife's side family as well. Their's is a huge family and astonishingly they do not have a single suitable girl. But guys there are a gazillion galore.

Where must have the girls gone? If you look at statistics, there are 927 ladies for every 1000 guys and that explains it (The serious consequences are a different discussion). The stat is alarmingly low in infants where it is 880 for 1000. The stats are even more glaring when compared them with other countries where women are 1045 for every 1000 men which is understandable as women are known to live longer.

So It looks that 7 in 100 guys have to remain unmarried unless it becomes acceptable socially and legally for a girl to have multiple spouses. Divine intervention is needed to change this imbalance. And sure enough God has heard my pray. My friends who had kids recently were all girls. Long live the girl child.

For a more serious perpective please view the links below
Sex ratio: the hidden horrors
An Overview India's Population
The Hindu : Men without women