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  • A new book records the ways some cultures  ostracise widows and in some cases deem them ‘unclean’

    A new book records the ways some cultures ostracise widows and in some cases deem them ‘unclean’

    Mineke Schipper
    · Sep 16, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • How a Dalit woman found success as a farmer, years after her debt-ridden husband took his life

    How a Dalit woman found success as a farmer, years after her debt-ridden husband took his life

    Chitra Ajith
    · Mar 18, 2017 · 03:30 pm