What could it be about? It's about older women who are widows, being taken to visit the town or area where they grew up. One woman describes being given the 'cold shoulder' by her in-laws (presumably living with her former husband's relatives); a voluntary organisation looking after a thousand widows plans to offer them the chance to take a tour to a major town that many of them originated from during Durga Puja (I had to look that up, it's a Hindu festival).
You can see nostalgia and wanting to see the old places as too backward-looking, but it's forward-looking to plan a trip with a purpose, rather than an idle holiday.
Link to the original article. It's on the website of the voluntary organisation, the
Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
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