Re: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning

2015-01-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" 

 To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"  
 Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:06 AM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning
   
    WTF is this world coming to! 
Tell me about it. The next heretical insult that the West perpetrates on India 
(The Home Of All Knowledge) is that they're going to try to make it illegal to 
roast marshmallows over the burning wife's corpse. 


From: eustace10679 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:47 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning
  
    BBC World Service - Witness
Available now : 10 minutes

In I988 India passed a law that made it a criminal offence to help anyone 
perform Sati, the ancient Hindu custom of a woman being burned alive on the 
funeral pyre of her dead husband. Witness has been speaking to Ranjana Kumari, 
who helped to push through the change in legislation.

(Photo: drawing from 1850 of an Indian woman practising the tradition of Sati 
in which she burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. Credit: 
Getty Images.)

India Bans Widow Burning, Witness - BBC World Service
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning

2015-01-13 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
WTF is this world coming to! 
  From: eustace10679 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:47 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning
   
    BBC World Service - Witness
Available now : 10 minutes

In I988 India passed a law that made it a criminal offence to help anyone 
perform Sati, the ancient Hindu custom of a woman being burned alive on the 
funeral pyre of her dead husband. Witness has been speaking to Ranjana Kumari, 
who helped to push through the change in legislation.

(Photo: drawing from 1850 of an Indian woman practising the tradition of Sati 
in which she burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. Credit: 
Getty Images.)

India Bans Widow Burning, Witness - BBC World Service
 
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Service  In I988 India passed a law that made it a criminal offence to help 
anyone commit Sati||
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[FairfieldLife] India Bans Widow Burning

2015-01-13 Thread eustace10679
BBC World Service - Witness

 Available now : 10 minutes

In I988 India passed a law that made it a criminal offence to help anyone 
perform Sati, the ancient Hindu custom of a woman being burned alive on the 
funeral pyre of her dead husband. Witness has been speaking to Ranjana Kumari, 
who helped to push through the change in legislation.

(Photo: drawing from 1850 of an Indian woman practising the tradition of Sati 
in which she burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. Credit: 
Getty Images.)

 

 India Bans Widow Burning, Witness - BBC World Service 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g37r2

 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g37r2 
 
 India Bans Widow Burning, Witness - BBC World Service 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g37r2 In I988 India passed a law that made 
it a criminal offence to help anyone commit Sati
 
 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g37r2 
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