Vrindavan Widows
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Vrindavan widows march for clean Yamuna
India | Oct 21, 2014, 05:50 PM ISTVrindavan: The 1,000-odd widows of Vrindavan Tuesday evening marched through the narrow streets of this holy town, demanding a cleaner Yamuna and urgent steps to check pollution in the river.Several hundred of them were holding
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Pained by Hema's 'outsider' remarks: Vrindavan widows
India | Sep 25, 2014, 04:27 PM ISTPatna: Widows from Vrindavan, who are here to visit religious places of the state, today said they were hurt by Mathura MP Hema Malini's “outsider” remarks and urged her to withdraw the ‘painful' comments. “We
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Vrindavan: widows play Holi with colours, gulal
India | Mar 14, 2014, 05:28 PM ISTVrindavan (UP): About 1000 widows, shunning the shackles of social stigma, today played Holi with colours and gulal at Meera Sahabhagini Ashram here. It was for the first time that the widows gathered in such
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Watch in pics the solitary, sad lives of Vrindavan widows
India | Mar 19, 2014, 07:01 AM ISTNew Delhi: The beautiful and holy towns of Vrindavan and Mathura in addition to being the birthplace of Lord Krishna have also a unique feature.It is the abode of almost 6000 widows in India. According
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Vrindavan widows to celebrate Christmas
India | Dec 23, 2013, 10:30 AM ISTVrindavan: The widows of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh are celebrating Christmas this year, for the first time in their lives.At the 100-year-old Meerasahabhagini Ashram in Vrindavan, hundreds of widows revelled in Christmas celebrations in the
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Over 1,000 Vrindavan widows celebrate Diwali, burst crackers
India | Oct 31, 2013, 11:39 PM ISTVrindavan: Over a thousand widows of Meerasahabhagni Ashram here, most of them fragile and in their 70s, today began Dewali festivities after the dusk by bursting crackers and lighting earthen lamps.After celebrating Holi, participating in
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Mamata offers to help Vrindavan widows resettle in Kolkata
India | Oct 09, 2013, 09:25 AM ISTKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday offered to help the Bengali widows in Vrindavan to resettle in Kolkata where they are currently on visit.“If anyone of you want to come back to Bengal,
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Emotional homecoming for Vrindavan widows in Kolkata
India | Oct 07, 2013, 10:03 PM ISTKolkata: Boarding a flight for the first time, getting an opportunity to meet their dear ones and savouring Durga Puja ambience in Bengal after years -- it has been a perfect homecoming for Vrindavan's 50
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Over 800 Vrindavan widows celebrate Holi for the first time
India | Mar 25, 2013, 02:57 PM ISTVrindavan, UP, March 25: Over 800 widows on Sunday broke off from ancient tradition and celebrated the colourful festival Holi with flowers at an event held in Vrindavan, 10 km away from Mathura, birthplace of
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Shame! Bodies Of Vrindavan Widows Cut To Pieces By Sweepers After Death, Dumped In Yamuna
India | Jan 16, 2012, 08:49 PM ISTVrindavan, Jan 16: The bodies of widows who die in government-run shelter homes in Vrindavan are taken away by sweepers at night, cut into pieces, put into jute bags and dumped into the river Yamuna,