Acharya Prashant addresses the concern about the safety of daughters in India, agreeing that they are in danger, but for a reason different from what is commonly believed. He states that in India, many daughters have genuinely disappeared. He is referring to young girls, very young girls, even younger than one can imagine. In the last 20 years, they have disappeared. He specifies that these are Indian girls, and particularly Hindu girls. This phenomenon, which started many decades ago, is not ending but is, in fact, accelerating. The speaker presents data to show who is responsible for this. This act is not being committed by the lower class, but by the upper and middle classes. It is not the uneducated, but the educated who are doing this. It is not the 'lower' castes, but the 'upper' castes. He points out that in upper castes, there are 127 boys for every 100 girls, whereas in lower castes, there are 105 boys for every 100 girls. This is happening in cities, not in rural areas. Geographically, this is being done by North Indians and West Indians, not in the South or the East. The states involved are Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. The speaker highlights the irony that the very places where there is the most noise about Hindu daughters being in danger are the same places where the Hindu society is itself engaged in killing its own daughters. He refers to Amartya Sen's research on 'More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing,' which included India, Southeast Asia, China, and North Africa. Focusing on India, he states that more than one crore (10 million) girls have been killed in the last 20 years, and since independence, the number is estimated to be 3-4 crore. He further presents data from the 2011 census showing that the sex ratio is worse in families with fewer children. For families with one child, the sex ratio is 782 girls per 1000 boys, and for two children, it is 720. This indicates a preference for a male child, leading to sex-selective abortions. Acharya Prashant explains that the natural birth rate is about 105 boys for every 100 girls, as boys are genetically weaker and have a higher natural mortality rate, which balances the ratio over time. He connects the issue of female foeticide to conservatism and traditionalism. He argues that wherever there is more orthodoxy, the plight of women will be worse. He contrasts this with countries with open-mindedness and freedom of thought, like New Zealand, where women have high representation in parliament and the country progresses on all development indicators. He concludes that spirituality is about newness, not following old traditions, and societies that suppress women due to religious conservatism will remain backward.