This response to "Declining Child Sex Ratio and Sex Selection in India: A Demographic Epiphany"? (EPW, 18 August 2012) argues that contrary to the assertion in that article, state and non-governmental organisation interventions seem to have played an important role in reversing the decline in the 0-6 sex ratio in Tamil Nadu.

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Srinivasan, S., & Bedi, A. S. (2012). Tackling female infanticide and sex selection in Tamil Nadu a failure?. Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs (Vol. 47, pp. 80–82). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/94551