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Widowed Indian women wake up to new reality

Many whose husbands died need to find jobs that enable them to raise their kids

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Nirmala Ganapathy‍ India Bureau Chief In New Delhi, Nirmala Ganapathy

Five months ago, Mrs Anuradha Roy and her husband Kaushik, both in their late thirties, along with their two children, moved into a new home in Noida, a satellite township of the Indian capital.
There was the excitement of new beginnings as Mr Roy, a technical architect, had plans to become an entrepreneur and launch a start-up dealing with artificial intelligence.
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