the widows of Vrindavan

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Bent over by osteoporosis, 85-year-old Promita Das meticulously and slowly sweeps the floor just outside her door and then carefully cleans her dishes.

"I came here when I couldn't work anymore. I used to clean houses," she says. "Nobody looked after me, nobody loved me. I survived on my own."

She married at 12 and was widowed at 15. Seventy years later, she finds herself at Amar Bari. "I used to live in front of a temple, but then I came here," she says.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/damon.india.widows/#cnnSTCText

Comments

[theotoky.livejournal.com]

have you seen the movie "water"? brilliant and heartbreaking.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

I read that this morning and thought it was a fabulous article. So sad and such a reminder of how far we have to come.

Yech.

[haya.livejournal.com]

That's awful.

It's hard for me to stomach that.