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"A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.

A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal.

The Laws of Manu

Chapter 5, Verse 156-161

Dharamshastras

(Sacred Hindu texts)"

India. 1938. Uma criança é deixada pela família numa Casa de Viúvas porque o marido, que não conhece, morreu. Começa assim a viagem por Water, de Deepa Mehta. Imperdível. Simplesmente.

"There are over 34 million widows in India according to the 2001 Census. Many continue to live in conditions of social, economic and cultural deprivation as prescribed 2000 years ago by the Sacred Texts of Manu."