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grammydjb1

11-21-2007 10:30 PM

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11-22-2007 12:51 AM

Deepti

Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not
uncommon for women in some areas of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband's
funeral pyre

This practise was called Sati

11-22-2007 7:45 AM

grammydjb1

Ignorance is not always bliss.

11-22-2007 2:11 PM

Lifestar

But knowledge always is pain... almost always...

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