Homeless Bird

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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)

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

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