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“May your husband live a 100 years!”

As somebody who has serious ideological issues with even the word “widow” (as it defines a women in terms of her husband (or his death)), South Indian customs towards widows come as both interesting (from a purely academic point of view) and shocking (from a feminist point of view). In the days of yore, widows [...]