However, as years passed by the room rent kept increasing beyond her means. Thankfully, in , Maitri India welcomed her to MaitriGhar , a home for elderly and widow women.
Dhanwanti and hundred other widows living in the home also are provided with nutritious mid-day-meal, cotton sarees, and regular health check up. Today, at the age of sixty-five, Dhanwantifinally lives for her own happiness. She chooses to live in Varindavan as she draws immense joy and happiness in visiting temples and singing bhajans devotional songs.
MaitriGhar has made it possible for her to continue to enjoy her stay in Varindavanand live comfortably, for which she is very grateful. My husband was an alcoholic, a gambler and a womanizer. He did not support us financially. Life was very difficult with him, but was bad without him as well.
When my husband died, he left me with the responsibility of taking care of our children. When my son got married, he and my daughter-in-law treated me with utmost disrespect, beat me, and gave me no food. I feared for my life. Hence, with great difficulty I left to find somewhere where I could find safety. MayaMaya, a young mother of two had to face the humiliation of her husband re-marrying someone else after eight years of their marriage. She never went to school and never learnt any skills that could help her become self-reliant.
She was completely dependent on her husband who was a farmer. She helped her husband in farming. After her husband re-married, he forced Maya and her children to leave the house.
Maya, having no other choice, sought help from her paternal family. With the help of relatives and hard work, Maya raised her two children and eventually got them married. So she decided to come to RadhaKund in RadhaKundis a small town in Uttar Pradesh state of India well known for its religious relevance and countless temples. Individuals distressed and dissatisfied with their lives often come here as pilgrims in pursuit of spirituality.
A large number, 15, of them are widows, most of them disowned and abandoned by their family live in pathetic and pitiable living conditions in Varindavan and RadhaKund. Similar fate waited Maya whens she arrived in RadhaKund. But having no other choice she stayed back and lived on generosity of the temple goers and earned less than a dollar per day from singing devotional songs in temples. She is warmly welcomed to MaitriGhar, a home for elderly women and widows.
Here, she is respected not humiliated, cared for not turned away, safe not vulnerable and valued not shamed. I also have friends in other women. Sixty-year-old Shakti Dassi, an abandoned widow took refuge in RadhaKund, a small town well known as a holy place in Uttar Pradesh, India, about fourteen years ago. Having no other choice she survived by begging in and around the temples ofRadhaKund, until Maitri India came to her rescue.
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Date DW News on Facebook This is very important because now the entire country knows that the widows of Vrindavan celebrate festivals. This mini-revolution has sparked an ongoing national debate about improving the lives of widows.
Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox. Explore SBS. Women's Rights. The town of 10, widows, where women are starting to rebel The women of Vrindavan in India have been disowned by their own children, but they're finding strength in numbers. Women in a Vrindavan ashram for widows, photographed around Holi in February Poornati centre at the ashram run by Maitri India.
Source: Sophie Cousins. Read More. MeToo gathers steam in India, at last. India is home to about 46 million widows. Ravi Das, The authorities run four ashrams - a form of spiritual commune - where some of the women are housed, but many need to beg to pay for rented accommodation. Some claim that the locals treat them quite roughly and it is only the pilgrims who are happy to win spiritual merit by giving them money.
Gauri Dasi left the Bengal border with Bangladesh because of tensions in the area in She arrived in Vrindavan with her husband, with whom she had three daughters. He then deserted them and all her daughters were married off when they reached the age of Dasi has been living alone in Vrindavan for the past 15 years and feels pushed into dedicating her life to the devotion of Radha.
She gets paid a few coins for singing devotional songs in the temples. She has become one of India's millions who have renounced the world to follow a spiritual path, but she is one of the reluctant ones.
Many of these servants of god appear to live tragic lives on the streets of this romance-drenched town. The government and pilgrims can help keep these refugees from family life away from starvation, but they are less able to quell injustices and age-old superstitions in Bengal.
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