Annual Hindu pageant of colors, aforesaid a charity operating to finish the stigma encompassing the ladies.
Banished by families when their husbands' deaths for purportedly transferral unhealthy luck, urgently poor widows have for hundreds of years cosmopolitan to the northern town of Vrindavan, wherever the Hindu god avatar is alleged to own big up, to hope and wait to die.
But this year, the widows in Vrindavan, one hundred thirty five kilometres (80 miles) south of the national capital Indian capital, square measure collaborating within the Hindu pageant of colors called Holi, that heralds the arrival of spring, Sulabh, a civic charity, said.
"It's a Holi of hope for these girls," Bindeshwar Pathak, founding father of Sulabh International, that works with the widows, told AFP, expression the ladies would participate in additional pageant celebrations over following few days.
Banished by families when their husbands' deaths for purportedly transferral unhealthy luck, urgently poor widows have for hundreds of years cosmopolitan to the northern town of Vrindavan, wherever the Hindu god avatar is alleged to own big up, to hope and wait to die.
But this year, the widows in Vrindavan, one hundred thirty five kilometres (80 miles) south of the national capital Indian capital, square measure collaborating within the Hindu pageant of colors called Holi, that heralds the arrival of spring, Sulabh, a civic charity, said.
"It's a Holi of hope for these girls," Bindeshwar Pathak, founding father of Sulabh International, that works with the widows, told AFP, expression the ladies would participate in additional pageant celebrations over following few days.
On Sunday, many widows participated within the initial day of the festivities that culminate on weekday, succession colored powder at one another, terpsichore to ancient Holi songs and showering one another with flowers.
The women, put off by relatives United Nations agency see them as a money drain and think about even their shadows a curse, have historically sung hymns and begged within the journey town on the banks of the Yamuna stream.
