Given the various restrictions mandated amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a limited number of widows took part in the celebrations. They also wore masks and maintained social distancing.

It’s time we acknowledged that a bereaved woman going through the emotionally wrenching event of losing her life partner does not need a misogynist code of social conduct that disarms her.

While hearing a case of Vrindavan widows, the apex court instructed all state governments and union territories to compile a list of active welfare scheme for the improvement of destitute women and widows in the country. It also directed the temples in Mathura and Vrindavan to donate all flowers offered to them to shelter homes […]

Even the police of Vrindavan call for Lakshmi Gautam when they see an old woman on the streets or an unclaimed female body. She works for women’s empowerment, dignity and rights in the birthplace of Lord Krishna — Vrindavan. Now 52 years old, Laxmi started on the path to bring some change into the lives […]