HEALTH CAPABILITY OF WIDOWS IN INDIA

In accordance with the capability approach, a widow is one of the deprived people especially in Indian society even after so many years of independence of the country. They may possess all the required things, amenities, education, and health and so on; they are unable to have or enjoy a decent or healthy life as they are not supposed to do so. They are assumed to be staying in deprivation in terms of daily routine life which is not just confined to clothing and food. They are not supposed to have a healthy lifestyle before society. They lack basic capability in terms of health and proper nutrition. A widow may not have a good employment opportunity, a shelter, not able to move freely in the society and so on. This research paper put forth the health condition of widows in India in terms of capability approach and also examines the cost of capability achievement in the context of health capability. Though women empowerment is the most spoken phenomenon today; she has been still seen one of the inescapable components as observed to be unfortunate and unexpected where goddess worship is widely held in the region. In this research, an examination will hold on the health conditions of widows in the country and her comparison with their counterparts in terms of health conditions.