THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, June 24: International Widows Day, which is observed on June 23 globally, saw a saga of two different tales of women.
A widow got a new man in her life, all legally and piously. Her remarriage was witnessed by the District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO) Neeta Chouhan, IAS officer on probation Himanshu Lal and hosts of the elites of the society.
There in the same programme on the International Widows Day, widow Shobha Kumari’s plights and sufferings saddened everyone who had gathered at this function organized by a social outfit Pahal under the patronship of Avinash Dev, chairman of the prestigious St Mariam’s school.
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Shobha Kumari told how every day she is made to live in shame, guilt and repentance as if it’s she who has ‘devoured’ her husband, who died in a road accident.
Shobha Kumari wants to be self-independent. All that she cries for is the restoration of her son and daughter, who are under the possession of her mother-in-law.
The widows have an equal right to live. However the society treats widows most shabbily said Avinash Dev who is seen now as a path breaker of rights and opportunities for the widows.
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Palamu DSWO Neeta Chouhan gave her all out support for this programme of Avinash Dev terming it “as first ever in the whole of Jharkhand” where a common man got to know “there live widows in the society too who deserve respect and dignity as much as like any other woman having a husband and a family.”
