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There is a sense of excitement in India’s Patuka village — adults and children look curiously assigns with the names of daughters are hammered outside several home
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s. It is a novelty in a village where patriarchal mindsets have long held sway. As Mubin Sumssu poses proudly with his family after the name of his 14-year-old daughter is posted outside his gate, he envisions a new future for her. “I hope she studies well, progresses in life, does a good job, and makes a name for herself.” This is not the life that girls can traditionally aspire to in this Muslim-dominated village, which lies in one of the country’s most backward districts in the northern Haryana state. Many girls do not complete school and their lives revolve...