Varanasi/Kolkata: One of them watched the play of sunlight in the clouds, another fiddled with the headphones to watch the in-flight movie, while yet another said that a plane ride gave her an empty feeling in the stomach... much like a ferris-wheel ride had given her many years ago when she was just a little girl.
On board the aircraft carrying the Vrindavan widows back home for a feel of Durga Puja, even the IT professional from New York - a been-there-done-that frequent flier - agreed he had never seen something like this before.
The IT professional from New York, a frequent flier agreed with his Korean co passenger lady that both of them have never seen such huge group of 'strange' and innocent looking elderly widows on board as co passenger.
The 50 odd widows from Vrindavan ashrams were being brought by Sulabh International to Kolkata to fulfill their wish to come to Bengal during Durga puja festival. The widows who have left the state after their husband's death due to several practical constraints will witness Durga puja this time more or less after 30-40 years.
07/10/13 Kamalendu Bhadra/Times of India
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On board the aircraft carrying the Vrindavan widows back home for a feel of Durga Puja, even the IT professional from New York - a been-there-done-that frequent flier - agreed he had never seen something like this before.
The IT professional from New York, a frequent flier agreed with his Korean co passenger lady that both of them have never seen such huge group of 'strange' and innocent looking elderly widows on board as co passenger.
The 50 odd widows from Vrindavan ashrams were being brought by Sulabh International to Kolkata to fulfill their wish to come to Bengal during Durga puja festival. The widows who have left the state after their husband's death due to several practical constraints will witness Durga puja this time more or less after 30-40 years.
07/10/13 Kamalendu Bhadra/Times of India
