“You may agree that as people become more educated and modernised the traditional fixation with male child would gradually decline. But that doesn’t seem to be showing on the ground. The worst sex ratio is in the South Mumbai Malabar Hill and Colaba where the most affluent and educated people live. ‘The ratio of perfectly normal if you step into the tribal areas around Mumbai,’ said Rajni Bakshi, fellow, Gateway House (India), a Mumbai think tank.”