Vrindavan Widows
-
{
- All
- News
- Videos
-
Vrindavan Widows Celebrate Green Diwali With Colourful Diyas And Rangolis
For the first time the widows of Vrindavan on Sunday celebrated 'green Diwali' at the Gopinath temple. They lit colourful earthen lamps and made intricate Rangolis. Many of them sang traditional hymns as part of the 'green Diwali' celebrations.
-
Widows In Vrindavan Look Forward To Starting Life Afresh In New Home
Lord Krishna has given a purpose to the widows of Vrindavan to continue with their lives after being left alone in this world, says 88-year-old Gayatri Devi, for whom Janmashtami is more than a festival.
-
Vrindavan Widows To Present Gulaal , Sweets To 'Modi Bhaiya' Ahead Of Holi
Five widows from Vrindavan are to reach Delhi tomorrow with 11 earthen pots containing herbal 'gulaal' (colour powder that is used during the Holi festivities) and an array of sweets meant for their "brother" - Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
-
Vrindavan Widows, Outcasts Tie Rakhi To Priests
In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan.
-
Vrindavan Widows Plan To Send Rakhis To PM Narendra Modi
This Raksha Bandhan, widows of Vrindavan are planning to send around 1000 rakhis to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
-
Around 1,0000 Vrindavan Widows Celebrate Diwali
Around 1,000 elderly Vrindavan widows started a two-day Diwali celebration today on the bank of river Yamuna and five of their ashrams in Vrindavan.
-
Widows of Vrindavan Begin Diwali Celebrations on Yamuna Banks
The widows of Vrindavan today lit hundreds of earthen lamps at the banks of Yamuna as they today began their three-day Diwali celebrations through which they intend to spread awareness about the need for the river's cleanliness.
-
Feisty Widows Invite Hema Malini to Vrindavan
They are frail but they are feisty - 50 widows of Vrindavan who arrived in Kolkata today to celebrate the Durga Pujas have a simple message for Hema Malini, the BJP MP from Mathura who recently said the widows of Vrindavan should go back to their own states, Bengal and Bihar. Their message - come to us in Vrindavan, sing "bhajans" with us, do "dars...
-
Hema Malini, MP, Wrong At So Many Levels
Incorrect facts and defamatory accusations, says Brinda Karat.
-
Hema Malini Clarifies Controversial Remarks on Vrindavan Widows
Actor-turned-BJP parliamentarian Hema Malini today supplied her clarification in a series of tweets after a controversy over her comment that "widows from Bengal and Bihar should stay there" and not crowd Vrindavan, the holy city in Uttar Pradesh home to thousands of destitute women.
-
'Widows From Bengal, Bihar, Stay There. Why Crowd Vrindavan?': Hema Malini
Actor-parliamentarian Hema Malini is being criticized for her comment that widows from Bengal and Bihar should not crowd Vrindavan, the holy city in Uttar Pradesh home to thousands of destitute women.
-
Breaking Barriers, Vrindavan Widows Celebrate Raksha Bandhan
Around 800 widows, shunning the shackles of social stigma, today celebrated 'Raksha Bandhan' for the first time in the temple town.
-
Politicians turn blind eye to voteless Vrindavan widows
Most of them have been abandoned by their families but the over 10,000 widows in this city of Lord Krishna have also been abandoned by the country's electoral process as they do not have voting rights here.
-
Supreme Court shocked by how bodies of Vrindavan widows are treated
The Supreme Court today expressed shock over the manner in which the bodies of deceased Vrindavan widows were disposed by chopping into pieces and packing in gunny bags. The Court said "It is shocking" and directed the Chief Medical Officer of Civil hospital of Mathura to ensure last rites of any deceased women in the shelter homes be performed per...
-
Supreme Court wants report on condition of Vrindavan widows
Taking note of the pitiable condition of widows in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today appointed a seven-member panel to collect data on their socio-economic condition.
-
Vrindavan Widows Celebrate Green Diwali With Colourful Diyas And Rangolis
For the first time the widows of Vrindavan on Sunday celebrated 'green Diwali' at the Gopinath temple. They lit colourful earthen lamps and made intricate Rangolis. Many of them sang traditional hymns as part of the 'green Diwali' celebrations.
-
Widows In Vrindavan Look Forward To Starting Life Afresh In New Home
Lord Krishna has given a purpose to the widows of Vrindavan to continue with their lives after being left alone in this world, says 88-year-old Gayatri Devi, for whom Janmashtami is more than a festival.
-
Vrindavan Widows To Present Gulaal , Sweets To 'Modi Bhaiya' Ahead Of Holi
Five widows from Vrindavan are to reach Delhi tomorrow with 11 earthen pots containing herbal 'gulaal' (colour powder that is used during the Holi festivities) and an array of sweets meant for their "brother" - Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
-
Vrindavan Widows, Outcasts Tie Rakhi To Priests
In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan.
-
Vrindavan Widows Plan To Send Rakhis To PM Narendra Modi
This Raksha Bandhan, widows of Vrindavan are planning to send around 1000 rakhis to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
-
Around 1,0000 Vrindavan Widows Celebrate Diwali
Around 1,000 elderly Vrindavan widows started a two-day Diwali celebration today on the bank of river Yamuna and five of their ashrams in Vrindavan.
-
Widows of Vrindavan Begin Diwali Celebrations on Yamuna Banks
The widows of Vrindavan today lit hundreds of earthen lamps at the banks of Yamuna as they today began their three-day Diwali celebrations through which they intend to spread awareness about the need for the river's cleanliness.
-
Feisty Widows Invite Hema Malini to Vrindavan
They are frail but they are feisty - 50 widows of Vrindavan who arrived in Kolkata today to celebrate the Durga Pujas have a simple message for Hema Malini, the BJP MP from Mathura who recently said the widows of Vrindavan should go back to their own states, Bengal and Bihar. Their message - come to us in Vrindavan, sing "bhajans" with us, do "dars...
-
Hema Malini, MP, Wrong At So Many Levels
Incorrect facts and defamatory accusations, says Brinda Karat.
-
Hema Malini Clarifies Controversial Remarks on Vrindavan Widows
Actor-turned-BJP parliamentarian Hema Malini today supplied her clarification in a series of tweets after a controversy over her comment that "widows from Bengal and Bihar should stay there" and not crowd Vrindavan, the holy city in Uttar Pradesh home to thousands of destitute women.
-
'Widows From Bengal, Bihar, Stay There. Why Crowd Vrindavan?': Hema Malini
Actor-parliamentarian Hema Malini is being criticized for her comment that widows from Bengal and Bihar should not crowd Vrindavan, the holy city in Uttar Pradesh home to thousands of destitute women.
-
Breaking Barriers, Vrindavan Widows Celebrate Raksha Bandhan
Around 800 widows, shunning the shackles of social stigma, today celebrated 'Raksha Bandhan' for the first time in the temple town.
-
Politicians turn blind eye to voteless Vrindavan widows
Most of them have been abandoned by their families but the over 10,000 widows in this city of Lord Krishna have also been abandoned by the country's electoral process as they do not have voting rights here.
-
Supreme Court shocked by how bodies of Vrindavan widows are treated
The Supreme Court today expressed shock over the manner in which the bodies of deceased Vrindavan widows were disposed by chopping into pieces and packing in gunny bags. The Court said "It is shocking" and directed the Chief Medical Officer of Civil hospital of Mathura to ensure last rites of any deceased women in the shelter homes be performed per...
-
Supreme Court wants report on condition of Vrindavan widows
Taking note of the pitiable condition of widows in Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today appointed a seven-member panel to collect data on their socio-economic condition.
