Show widows no longer burned one hundred and fifty years ago it was an indian custom to burn the widow of a deceased husband she would have died when her husband died perishing in the flames that would have consumed his body on a ceremonial funeral pyre along the banks of the sacred river rive gan ganges es this custom went out years ago when a great enlightened indian leader ram mohan roy succeeded in obtaining passage of a I 1 law making the practice illegal today instead of being burned to death with their husbands bodies widows are serving in the political life of their cities and taking an active part in the movement lent for indian inde independence P en dence emancipated as they are the middle class of indian still clings to some ancient customs as wearing small diamonds in their nostrils and wearing a red dot like a crimson beauty spot in the center of their forehead but where once they w were ere worn as a mark of caste today it is merely ornamental ornan |