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These young widows faced rejection from their families, discrimination at work, and difficulty in coping with their life circumstances [35].
The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.
You know, there are a lot of single women and widows in this country who manage to stay happy without the constant focus on erections.
Men are the clear winners of this arrangement in both social and economic terms, and many widows and their children, dispossessed or not, struggle against enormous odds simply to survive.
This government would enact welfare legislation to care for the widows and orphans of the war.