The third installment of Deepa Mehta’s elemental film trilogy, 2005’s Water, opens with a verse from the Laws of Manu of the Dharmashastras, a sacred Hindu text. “A widow should be long suffering ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The treatment of widows in India has been discussed and criticized widely. In 2021, “SheThePeople,” a digital website devoted to the women’s movement in India, published “Seven Inhuman ...

India's widows suffer from exclusion and stigmatization. For decades, they have been fighting for more rights, with the help of NGOs. For the first time, widows are allowed to celebrate the festival ...

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In "Water," Canadian-Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta illuminates a sad aspect of society in India: widows cast out by their families. The film is powerful and unsettling when Mehta's desire to entertain ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Widows of farmers who have committed suicide in western India face abuse and threats to their children's safety when they demand their inheritance, highlighting ...