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  • India turns to Wiccan queen to save girls

    07/06/2007 3:24:05 AM PDT · by markomalley · 19 replies · 511+ views
    DNA India ^ | 7/3/2007 | Bappa Majumdar
    KOLKATA: India has enlisted the follower of a global pagan witchcraft movement to help curb the country'' high female infanticide rate and end the neglect of the girl child, government said on Monday. Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, a Wiccan and a social activist, has been nominated by the Centre's National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) to head a panel entrusted with the responsibility to improve the status of young girls, they said. About 10 million girls have been killed by their parents over the past 20 years, said government officials as female infanticide and foeticide. “This is a triumph for...