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Thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by husbands working overseas

Sameer Yasir
New York Times·
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Thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by husbands working overseas
A pre-wedding photo shoot in the Indian state of Punjab on March 24, 2023. Photo / Priyadarshini Ravichandran, The New York Times

Like many other women in the state of Punjab, long a hub of emigration from India, Sharndeep Kaur aspired to marry an Indian working abroad and follow him to a more prosperous life overseas.

On January 13, 2014, she thought her dream had come true. That day in a Sikh

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