Miasto wdów w Indiach - Redux
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Besaki Dasi (75) on the way from her ashram to beg in the streets. She came to Vrindavan 35 years ago. The small town of Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India is home to about 22.000 widows. They 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 and, sometimes, their own children who abandon them after the demise of the husband. In order to attain salvation from the cycle of rebirth they live a life devoted to the Hindu god Krishna. The social stigma of widowhood makes them being dependent on begging, singing devotional songs for money, and charity.
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2015-11-24
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