There are many MANY old wives' tales in India about diets and techniques to guarantee male offspring, so you can be assured that there are crooks and charlatans

There are many MANY old wives' tales in India about diets and techniques to guarantee male offspring, so you can be assured that there are crooks and charlatans taking advantage of a wilfully gullible populace. I wouldn't be surprised if the more unscrupulous ones took this to a greater extreme.