BURNING FURY:
Driven to desperation by her husband’s transgressions, Girija poured kerosene on herself and handed a box of matches to her husband. When he refused to do needful, she carried out the deed herself. Today, although disfigured by the burns, she has found domestic hapiness with another husband and four children from his previous marriage.
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Sudharak Olwe (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based documentary photographer,
whose work has been featured in national publications and exhibited in Mumbai,
Delhi, Malmo (Sweden), Lisbon, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Washington.
He has drawn immense admiration and awe in the Indian subcontinent for revealing
the naked reality of life’s tragicomic social theater in 2005, he was one of the four awards for the
National Geographic’s “All Roads Photography Program”.
He was awarded Padma Shri
one of India’s highest civilian honors for his social work in 2016.