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| | Vrindavan cries for help | | | Dear Editor,
A report in a prominent online daily says that widows in the holy city of Vrindavan are suffering untold hardships. What is new in this whole sordid game is the grim news which makes the society cringe in horror. After death, the dead bodies of these hapless individuals are cut to pieces to be disposed off in river Ganga. The people, at the helm of affairs there say that they are short of funds due to which procuring the firewood or manufacturing the electric crematoriums become very difficult. In its absence, they have no option but to go ahead with this gruesome practice.
Women time and again, despite having touched the acmes of progress are yet to be counted amongst an emancipated lot. And the recent revelation at Vrindavan is an eye-opener in this case. After being abandoned by there kith and kin, they are forced to live the lives of destitutes on the verge of psychological collapse. In the numerous Ashrams of the holy city, many a horrendous crime is perpetrated if they are brought there, when younger. When old, they are thrown out of their houses by those she nurtures with her blood, sweat and after undertaking hardships. True, that this is mostly followed in West Bengal, but then the story with the rest of India is no different.
The government should wake up to this gruesome reality in its own backyard by intervening in the matter by providing every possible relief to these hapless individuals. It is but a fact that in the absence of a proper monetary security, are they treated in this way by their own and are later cut to pieces by the holier-than-thou spiritualists who have notions about there greatness and power. But, they forget that power ultimately destroys, especially, when used in the on the weakest sections of the society.
—Durga,
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