TOI correspondent from Washington: As a little girl growing up in Calcutta, Sharmila Mona Sinha was often reminded of a familiar Indian “disappointment”: she was the third daughter. In a society where the arrival of a son was treated as a family dividend and another daughter as a deficit, she absorbed the message early and decided to do something about it. “I wanted to be a boy and do what boys did,” she recalled.
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