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7/22/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1197-7/22/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Some Indian men are marrying multiple wives to help beat drought
Neither Indian laws nor Hindu principles allows this practice. However, it gives support needed for the family and status to live in the community for the women.
In this small and remote village in India, a man who had married a woman for long added two more women as his wives to his family to have them fetch water from a river or well far away from the village where there is no water available in dry season. Because those women were widows, this arrangement brought back their social status in the community where only men and married women are socially recognized. In other words, it's water that keeps this unusual family together.
Enjoy reading and learning about this unusual situation and solution in a remote village in India.


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