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The City of Widows
A good example of how senseless it is to romanticize "the good old days" when women were raised to be dependent on one man for their sustenance.
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I watched a documentary on this relatively recently. It's quite heartbreaking. The ashrams only house a certain number of widows, while many others are left on the street to beg (or even join prostitution rings). These are women without a face, without a name, in a country of over one billion, who will die in complete anonymity.
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I heard about that city when I was in India. It is really sad that now, when I've just read about 5 realistic fiction and non fiction books on women in Afghanistan, I feel like the Indian woman are lucky for having a place to go when they are widowed.
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What do you do when the demand cannot be met, especially in a country with such a massive population living in utter poverty, too. It's always seemed a country which focuses on providing for it's children, at least those who can, but not so much for the ageing parents.
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^ Yes...there are specific cultural factors involved as well, but one way or another, they all boil down to the problem of what do you do with people who are a net drain on household resources and likely to remain so, in a country where so many are desperately poor.
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India needs to trash it's caste system. It needs some kind of a cultural revolution or uprising. It would be cruel & kill millions, but is needed. Sorry I just had to say that.
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Why would it have to be a cruel and violent revolution?
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Do you honestly think it could be achieved without bloodshed? As for providing for children - in some areas having a female child is seen as a curse because of the dowry that has to be given at marriage.
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You bumped a month-old thread for that?
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Sorry but this board seems ridiculously obsessive & unfriendly. Bye.
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