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Bani Mukharji sitting on her bed in an ashram in Vrindavan on December 2, 2015. She has three children, who abandoned her after her husband passed away. Eventhough widows are expected to wear mainly white clothes, the color that symbolizes death and their asexuality, she still has an affection for clothes and possesses many dresses. 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.
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2015-12-02
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