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Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh“I can’t tell you how excited I am,” beams soon-to-be-dad Deepak Kumar. A sales executive with an FMCG company in Delhi, Kumar reached his hometown last week, a few days ahead of the birth of his child. “My boss denied me paternity leave,” he says with a giggle. The snub, though, didn’t dampen his enthusiasm as he went on a shopping spree to welcome his baby: Diapers, towels, powder, lotion... “This will be my fourth child,” he proudly says on a WhatsApp video call from Moradabad, some 191 km from Delhi. “I know what all I need to buy,” he says smiling. His three kids—two boys, aged 3 and 5, and a nine-year-old girl—and parents are equally excited to have a new addition in the family. ‘But why so many kids,’ asks this reporter apologetically. “What’s your problem? I can take care of them,” Kumar dishes out a no-nonsense reply. The second question, probing about his use of condoms is also met with scorn. “Condom kills the fun of sex. I don’t get pleasure,” he says. “Lekin ye to AIDS se bachne ke liye hota hai na (Is it not used to not get infected with AIDS?),” he asks. “I have sex only with my wife,” he says, adding that his partner has been using emergency contraceptive pills since marriage. “Condom is not a man thing,” asserts Kumar, 29.