Tag: Allowed
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By no means Have I Ever Allowed Indian Widows to Transfer On
The third installment of Deepa Mehta’s elemental movie trilogy, 2005’s Water, opens with a verse from the Legal guidelines of Manu of the Dharmashastras, a sacred Hindu textual content. “A widow needs to be lengthy struggling till demise, self-restrained and chaste. A virtuous spouse who stays chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.…