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"What if I don't like him?"
"Of course you will like him."
"But what if I don't?"
Maa impatiently slapped at a fly. "Then you must learn to like him."

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India's City of Widows

"It is one thing to photograph a group of people, it is another to try to understand them..." 

~ Fazal Ilahi Sheikh (photgrapher-activist)

 

"There are more than 33 million widows in India, comprising about 8 per cent of the total female population of the country. Despite this, little is known about the actual living conditions of widows, about the quiet deprivations they experience on a daily basis. They are rarely mentioned in the literature on poverty, in public debates on social policy or even by the women's movement."

~ Martha Alter Chen (Development Advisor, Harvard Institute for International Development and Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University)

 STUDENT RESOURCE LINKS

 

The Hindu Caste System

 

A Conversation with Gloria Whelan (click on audio link)

India's City of Widows

 

India's Widows Live Out Sentence of Shame, Poverty 

 

India's Outcast Widows

Vrindavan, one of India's most holy cities

 

Widow 's Stories From Around the World

 

India's Neglected Widows

 

Stories of Our Lives: Three Indian Widows Report

Arranged Marriages

 

Women in White India's Widows

The Ganges River

 

Indian Wedding Cake

 

Indian Embroidery

 

Learning to Embroider

Birds of India

 

 

Information on India

TEACHER RESOURCE LINKS

Author: Gloria Whelan

 

How Homeless Bird Came About

Reading Group Guide

 

Homeless Bird Unit

Listen to a Chapter of Homeless Bird

Homeless Bird WebQuest

 

Homeless Bird: Cultural Diversity Unit

 

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