The sad story of white widows

In Lifestyle we have talked about the tribes with the most curious customs of the world, some of them included rituals of marriage and more than curious, they were completely unfair and heartbreaking.On this occasion we want to present you the drama of widows White women of India .Keep reading, it will impact you.

The sad story of white widows in India

Before telling you this story, we want you to know this testimony :

«When my husband died, his family threw me out of the house saying that my life is worthless.I have no money or way of working.That is why I came to Vrindavan: every day I feed on alms and every night I pray not to wake up the next day ».- Radha Devi

This is just one of the a thousand stories that these women live every day; they live in the misery, of the alms that the Hindus with greater purchasing power give them, after begging or singing for them.This act, rather than compassion, is one of the actions through which many Hindus believe they please God.

No matter how old you are...being a widow in India is a real disgrace.Summed up in poverty and repudiated for the rest of the population, for the family and even for their children, they have a special place for them... Vrindaban , «the city of widows », although there are also a good number of these women in Varanasi , another sacred city.

Many have the shaved head and they must leave aside the beautiful saris and any type of ornament; they can only wear white ... They cannot awaken any kind of desire in other men.Their food must be very simple , without condiments or meats that can wake up your libido as a woman.Your presence in any kind of holiday is a symbol of bad omen, so you look totally isolated and alone in a world that doesn't accept and consider them a symbol of bad luck, if they intersect with them somewhere.

And in India a woman must be caste and modest and never be a free or independent woman .First her protector is her father and then her husband, so when this the last dies everything is over for them.

The city of Vrindaban, The city of the widows

Vrindaban is a city 150 Kilometers from Delhi and only 70 km from Agra, the tourist city that it houses the wonderful Taj Mahal.According to Hinduism the God Khrisna spent his childhood here, so for many this is a sacred place full of hundreds of temples.According to popular belief , who dies in Vrindaban is freed from the eternal cycle of reincarnation and his soul goes to heaven , for this reason it is a place of pilgrimage to many.

The sad story of white widows

Kusuma Sarovar, spa ( ghat) on the Lamuna river coast.

It is estimated that the population of Vridaban is around 57,000 people, 15,000 are widows according to a study by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem).

If you like this type of article, you may also be interested in The Temple of Rats in India.

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