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"It was a riot of colours when some 1000 odd widows, shunning the shackles of social stigma, played Holi at the 200-year-old Meera Sahabhagini Ashram.
It was for the first time that the widows gathered in such a large number to play Holi with gulal and water colour. They poured colour on each other in the presence of a large number of tourists and followers of Lord Krishna in the pilgrim town of Vrindavan.
Countering the age old social evil of widowhood, several widows have taken shelter in this holy city. It was a remarkable sight when the widows, mostly in the 70s and 80s, stooping low with age, danced and splashed more than 500 kilograms of gulal and gallons of water colours on each other.
More than 900 widows who were thrown out of their home by their family members today took a pledge against widowhood prior to the Holi celebration."
Stephanie Doty
Women's Issues Matter
March 19, 2014
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