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Strength of a single woman

Nirmal Chandel, 53
Social activist, Himachal Pradesh

Widowed at 23 and blamed for the misfortune, Nirmal Chandel spent a year in a dark corner of her in-laws' home. "I thought of ending my life once, but life had some other role for me in mind," says Chandel.

Thirty years on, Chandel, now 53 and living in the Sarkaghat

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