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In Maitri ashram, women gather in the hallway for kirtan, a collective call-and-response chant.

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Widows have been gathering in Vrindavan since the 16th-century social reformer and Hindu saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu brought a group to the city to escape the now-banned practice of sati, where widows have to immolate themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres.

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