The harsh truth about how widows are treated in India

In many Eastern countries, society treats women with contempt. Traditionally, a woman's fate in India lies in the hands of her husband.

Ukr.Media reports on it.

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It is noted that women in India are financially dependent on their husbands and, after his death, lose the "anchor" that enables them to feed themselves and their children.

Often, widows in this country begin to live with their husband's family after his death. Her beloved’s mother-in-law and relatives do not support her, but instead mock and humiliate her.

They treat the woman so cruelly because they suspect that she may have been the cause of her husband's death. In addition, it is economically disadvantageous for the family to keep another person, so they deliberately do everything they can to make the woman run away and stop burdening them.

In addition, India still practises the cruel ritual of sati, in which a dead man is burned on a pyre with his living widow. If the woman was left alive, she had to shave her head, remove her jewelry, and renounce any relationship with men. She was also forbidden to communicate with her own and her husband's family.

Most often, such widows lived out the rest of their lives in temples.

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