Many of India’s castaway widows wind up in Vrindavan, where for hundreds of years they have begged to survive. But their lives have improved considerably of late, thanks to a government shelter.

VRINDAVAN, INDIA — Lalita Goswami was married only a few years when her husband, a Hindu priest who beat her and abused drugs, died of an apparent overdose. She was left with three young children.

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta visited Vrindavan's Banke Bihari Temple, seeking blessings for a prosperous Delhi and India. She engaged ...

c. 2005 Religion News Service VRINDAVAN, India _ For centuries, this 27-square-mile town on the road from Delhi to Agra has been the holiest of holy ...

VRINDAVAN, India – Krishna, a skinny 12-year-old, waits near a Hindu temple packed with pilgrims. He hears a yell – that's his cue. He zigzags between motorbikes and honking tuk-tuks, ...

Purnendu Goswami, center, a Hindu monk-turned-atheist, with several students of his school for underprivileged children outside his family's ashram, Bindu Seva Sansthan, in Vrindavan, India, on ...

For India's Widows, A Riot Of Color, An Act Of Liberation In India, ... Manu was married at age 10 and found her way to the northern city of Vrindavan at 37. By that time, ...