THE DEVADASIS
RELIGION CAN NEVER REFORM MANKIND BECAUSE RELIGION IS SLAVERY - ROBERT GREEN IGNERSOLL To begin with, her mother was a Devadasi… She never knew the meaning of this word, and her mother wouldn’t break words about it. She would always ask who was her father but all she would get as a reply was silence. She was always bullied in the village and none of her peers would mingle with her, even her mother never spent time with her. It was as though the whole village had outcast her. Sometimes she used to sit in the field all alone with tears brooking down and there was only one question running in her thoughts. Why? She did get her answer eventually when she attained her puberty.It was her time to become a Devadasi. The Devadasi System Devadasis are women who are given or offered to the temple at a very young age, to the service of god, but they are actually enslaved in the name of tradition and religion. Even though it is a social evil, the olden days we...