A man broke the taboo by inviting as many as 18,000 widows to his son’s wedding.
Well, this incident happened in Gujarat state in India, where inviting widows for functions is still considered a taboo, especially in rural areas. However, Jitendra Patel, a Gujarati businessman, broke these parochial beliefs with his act of inviting 18,000 widows from five districts of north Gujarat, to bless his son and his bride.
“It was my heartfelt desire that the couple should be blessed by widows, who are mostly neglected by the society. Their presence is considered a bad omen at auspicious functions but I wanted to prove that all these beliefs are nothing but superstitions,” he told.
Every widow was presented a blanket and 500 widows, who come from poor families, were given a milking cow each so that they sustain financially.
Indian needs more people like him to break the countless taboos.