The third installment of Deepa Mehta’s elemental film trilogy, 2005’s Water, opens with a verse from the Laws of Manu of the Dharmashastras, a sacred Hindu text. “A widow should be long suffering ...

In India, many widows largely vanish from mainstream society as dictated by tradition. But when it comes to Holi, the spring festival of colors,... For India's Widows, A Riot Of Color, An Act Of ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The treatment of widows in India has been discussed and criticized widely. In 2021, “SheThePeople,” a digital website devoted to the women’s movement in India, published “Seven Inhuman ...

The verandah of the Bihari temple, in Radhakund, a few kilometers away from the Hindu temple town of Vrindavan, comes alive with chants and grateful ululations at 11 o’clock every morning as widows in ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Widows of farmers who have committed suicide in western India face abuse and threats to their children's safety when they demand their inheritance, highlighting ...

When her husband was alive, 24-year-old Shweta would only leave her house in Delhi to pick up her daughter from school. That changed after the field worker died during the first wave of COVID-19 in ...

VARANASI, India -- Scissors snip and the widow tears a strip of old dress cloth. Then she snips and rips again, repeating a tedious ritual with only one salvation in sight. Maybe this will be the day ...

“Truly a widow is as a withered faggot. Let her then burn on her lord’s funeral pyre.” With such proverbs as these, Indians have for centuries coldly praised the suttee: “a good woman” who allows ...

"I have no one. I've lost everything. My children are gone, my parents are gone. My husband's family doesn't ask about me. They don't even look for me, they don't even know if I eat," says Manu Ghosh, ...