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The forgotten 'widow villages' of Kedarnath

 

One of the biggest flash flood situations hit Kedarnath in the year 2013 and the villages near the shrine lost 57 men who used to work as priests to the calamity. Leaving the women behind. The widows, about 35 of them, still get inconsolable while talking about the dreadful night of June 15-16 that year when deadly rains ravaged Kedarnath valley. Its been three years and the government could not keep up its promises of employment which they had made to the women. Now with no option left, the women are forced to do petty jobs to feed themselves and their children.