Omkari Panwar, the 70 year-old wife of a retired farmer, delivered the twins — a boy and girl — via Caesarean section.    Living in Muzaffar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, Mrs. Panwar, who has two adult daughters and five grandchildren, underwent in-vitro fertility treatment so she could produce a male heir. Her husband, Charan Singh Panwar, 77, mortgaged his land, sold his buffalos, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan to finance the treatment. “At last we have a son and heir,” he said. “We prayed to God, went to saints and visited religious places to pray for an heir." “We kept no stone unturned and God has rewarded us. The treatment cost me a fortune but the birth of a son makes it all worthwhile. I can die a happy man and a proud father.”

Tell us, why is Mr. Panwar not sufficiently proud of his two daughters and their five children?  He needed a son so he could die happy?  What kind of a messed up backwards culture produces people with such wildly sexist attitudes?  Take a look at the picture - doesn’t Mrs. Panwar look like she would prefer Charan die before she was forced to produce an ‘heir?’  Maybe Mr. Panwar should have spent some of his money on some teeth.