Pandita Ramabai and the Widows of Pune
In 1889, a young Indian scholar named Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Pune, India — a home for child widows whom...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
In 1889, a young Indian scholar named Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Pune, India — a home for child widows whom respectable society had discarded. Ramabai knew something about empty religion. Born into a high-caste Brahmin family, she had memorized thousands of Sanskrit verses and performed every prescribed ritual. Yet when famine killed both her parents, not a single religious authority lifted a hand to help.…
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