Girl Made To Walk Holding Hot Iron Rods

Mythology will have you know that even Sita, the wife of Lord Ram, had to walk on burning embers to prove her innocence. And Vandana is no Sita. So there was no veneration when this tribal girl was ordered by a Panchayat to walk with a red-hot iron rod tied to her hand through her village in Madhya Pradesh. People jeered as she went through th...

Mythology will have you know that even Sita, the wife of Lord Ram, had to walk on burning embers to prove her innocence. And Vandana is no Sita. So there was no veneration when this tribal girl was ordered by a Panchayat to walk with a red-hot iron rod tied to her hand through her village in Madhya Pradesh. People jeered as she went through th...