A grandfather in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, has turned the arrival of his granddaughter into a citywide talking point by throwing a celebration usually reserved for the birth of a son. Mohammad Yusuf, a resident of Bhavani Nagar, had two Thar vehicles specially decorated and led a joyous procession home after his daughter gave birth to a baby girl, turning what could have been a quiet hospital discharge into a very public celebration of a daughter's birth.
A decorated convoy from hospital to home
Mohammad Yusuf's daughter delivered the baby girl at the maternal and child unit of Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Bhilwara. The moment he learned of the birth, Yusuf, the newborn's maternal grandfather, could barely contain his excitement. To mark the occasion, he arranged for two Thar vehicles to be specially decorated with flowers ahead of time. The decorated convoy then arrived at the hospital, where Yusuf picked up his daughter and his newborn granddaughter and drove them home to Bhavani Nagar in grand style. As the convoy reached the main gate of the house, family members and neighbours who had already gathered there welcomed the newborn with drumbeats and the sound of dhol. Flowers were showered over the vehicles and across the courtyard as they arrived, turning a routine homecoming into a full-blown festival for the entire neighbourhood.
"Daughters are not a burden, they are a gift from God"
Explaining why he chose to celebrate so lavishly, Mohammad Yusuf said that narrow-minded attitudes toward the birth of daughters still persist in parts of society even today, and that he wanted to actively challenge that mindset through his own actions. "The birth of a daughter is nothing less than a festival for our family. Whichever home a daughter is born into is blessed with prosperity and love," he said. Yusuf added that the celebration was not staged merely for show, but was a small, genuine effort to help build a more positive attitude toward daughters across society. He believes that welcoming a daughter's birth as a blessing from God should be treated as every family's duty, not an exception.
Honouring daughters is society's responsibility
Mohammad Yusuf believes daughters are the pride of a family and hold the key to society's future. His message is simple and direct: daughters deserve to be welcomed with the same enthusiasm, fanfare and celebration that typically greets the birth of a son, nothing less. His emotional and unusual gesture has won the hearts of not just his own family but people across the wider neighbourhood who witnessed the celebration. Two decorated Thar vehicles, the beat of dhol drums and a shower of flowers together made a simple point everyone could see, that when attitudes change, the birth of every daughter can become just as much of a celebration as any other.
