Miasto wdów w Indiach - Redux
EN_01265904_0006
Two widows comforting each other after an emotional breakdown. Sachirani Dasi (left) (70) became a widow at the age of 45. She has no children. Chapla Nath (right) has one son and two daughtes. She married at the age of 15. After eight years of marriage her husband passed away. The small town of Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India is home to about 22.000 widows. Widows migrate to the ashrams of this holy city due to discrimination and marginalization as traditional superstitions make them being regarded as inauspicious. They are shunned by society, barred from most religious activities and sometimes even abandoned by their own children. In order to attain salvation from the cycle of rebirth and suffering they live a life devoted to the Hindu god Krishna in Vrindavan. The social stigma of widowhood makes them being dependent on charity, begging and singing devotional songs for money in local Ashrams.
ADDITIONAL TEXT AVAILABLE
MINIMUM PRICE $100
2015-11-23
Sascha Richter/Redux/EAST NEWS
Redux Pictures
Sascha Richter/Redux
h_14978334
1,22MB
25cm x 17cm by 300dpi
000, 15, 22, 45, 70, A, ABANDONED, ABOUT, ACTIVITIES, AFTER, AGE, AN, AND, ARE, AS, ASHRAMS, ASIA, ASIAN, AT, ATTAIN, AWAY, BARRED, BECAME, BEGGING, BEING, BREAKDOWN, BY, CHAPLA, CHARITY, CHILDREN, CITY, COMFORTING, COMMUNITY, CYCLE, DASI, DAUGHTES, DEPENDENT, DEVOTED, DEVOTIONAL, DISCRIMINATION, DUE, EACH, EIGHT, EMOTIONAL, EVEN, FEMALE, FOR, FROM, GOD, HAS, HER, HINDU, HINDUISM, HOLY, HOME, HUSBAND, IN, INAUSPICIOUS, INDIA, INDIAN, IS, ISSUE, KRISHNA, LEFT, LIFE, LIVE, LOCAL, MAKE, MAKES, MARGINALIZATION, MARGINALIZED, MARRIAGE, MARRIED, MIGRATE, MONEY, MOST, NATH, NO, OF, ON, ONE, ORDER, OSTRACIZED, OTHER, OWN, PASSED, PRADESH, REBIRTH, REDUX, REGARDED, RELIGIOUS, RICHTER, RIGHT, SACHIRANI, SALVATION, SASCHA, SHE, SHUNNED, SINGING, SMALL, SOCIAL, SOCIETY, SOMETIMES, SON, SONGS, SOUTH, STIGMA, STIGMATIZED, SUFFERING, SUPERSTITIONS, THE, THEIR, THEM, THEY, THIS, TO, TOWN, TRADITIONAL, TWO, UTTAR, VRINDAVAN, WIDOW, WIDOWHOOD, WIDOWS, WOMAN, WOMEN, YEARS,