The online debate between comedian Kunal Kamra and author Amish Tripathi recently ignited widespread debate on history, mythology, and the ghastly practice of Sati. It began when Ola CEO Bhavish ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In a rural village in India, an 18-year-old girl was burned alive on the ...

Suttee, the old Hindu custom of widow’s suicide on the funeral pyre, has been banned in India since 1829; today it occurs rarely and then only in inaccessible villages in backward regions. No one had ...

What’s the deal with suttee? For years I’ve been hearing that in India, widows are routinely thrown on funeral pyres alive. Is this just propaganda? And if not, is it just unpopular widows that it ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India has the greatest number of widows in the world, but many face abuse, violence, property theft and even enslavement, according to rights campaigners. The ...

With the eye of an anthropologist and the passion of a feminist, Mineke Schipper has put the spotlight on the much-neglected subject of widowhood in her newest book, Widows; A Global History. Her ...