September is the month to celebrate daughters, in India, the last Sunday of the month, which falls of September 27 this year, is celebrated as Daughters’ Day, while World Daughters’ Day falls on September 2. Different countries celebrate their own national Daughters’ Day on different dates, and just like on Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day and so on, the role and importance of fathers, mothers, teachers respectively, is celebrated, on Daughters’ Day families celebrate daughters and the way in which daughters brighten up lives around them.
In India, Daughters’ Day was first founded to take away the stigma around being a girl in India. Unlike other countries around the world, daughters are not treated as equals in India and are often seen as a burden. The concept of dowry still persists in India even though there are laws against it and the family…