Life on the Edge: No Country for Young Girls?

Click here to view a trailer of the documentary: No Country For Young Girls?

Showing on BBC World News on Augsut 19th at 1930 GMT. Repeating at 1530 GMT on Thursday 21st August and at 0130 GMT on Friday 22nd.

As Vaijanti goes on a journey across India, she must decide if it's booming economy can offer her and her daughters a fair and prosperous future. Or will she decide that India is no country for young girls, and go back to her husband?
In the shadow of the Taj Mahal, Vaijanti must decide if she can leave her husband and make a life of her own.

Vaijanti, who's 27, fled her husband's home in the city of Agra, after a bitter row - she already had one daughter, and his family wanted her to abort another.

But Vaijanti decided she'd had enough - and went ahead with the pregnancy. Now she's living with her parents, and two young daughters. But with no income of her own, she's undecided whether to go back to her husband or not.

Vaijanti wants to know if things are as bad for girls in the rest of India - why are so many families determined not to have girl children?

If India is one of the world's booming economies - thanks to its embrace of globalization- aren't these old-fashioned prejudices dying out?

As 'Life' takes Vaijanti on a journey across India, she must decide if its booming economy can offer her and her daughters a fair and prosperous future.

Or will she decide that India is no country for young girls, and go back to her husband?