Anita Moorjani

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1,282 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 6 May

Anita Moorjani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Just because I was a girl.

I think they favored boys.

They favored sons over daughters.

Daughters are considered a burden.

Yes.

I mean, I know it's changing today, so I'm not trying to slam my entire culture.

But I think that I have met enough people in the world who have said, oh, my God, you're telling my story.

So I know I'm not alone in this.

By parents and by the whole of society.

Because in, again, in the community and culture... How are men born?

Exactly.

And yet when a woman is pregnant, all the good wishes, like all the prayers given to her and she...

gets to go to the temple where the priests are blessing her, they're all blessing her with a son.

And in our culture, a blessing is may you be blessed with sons.

It's... Wow, okay.

Yes.

Well, it started when I was in my late teens.

So I had British friends, Chinese friends, Indian friends.

My Indian friends started getting married from the age of 17, arranged marriage.

Yeah.

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