Heart Wrenching Stories RT Documentary

After my husband died, my eldest son threw me out of my home, an Indian widow says as she described the tragic details of her life. Unfortunately, there are many such cases in this country. Indians believe the widow brings misfortune. As a result, many once respectable women find themselves on the street begging just to survive. We talk about this topic of the invisible and ignored women on International Widows Day. Listen to their heartwrenching stories in our clip and the documentary, The Invisible Women (2015).