Agarbatti

As the government opens an incense stick factory to rehabilitate the widows of the massacred thakur’s of Behmai, Lala Ram Thakurain decides not to immerse her husband’s ashes in the river until the jailed Bandit Queen is killed. When the nine women working in the factory discuss why all those massacred were only men and not women, they are led to the rare truth that a convict`s act even indirectly causing crime without participation in it, was criminal. Lala Ram Thakurain gets cornered in the argument. Along with the other eight women, she mixes her husband’s ashes in the raw material of incense sticks. Liberated from caste, class and gender, remained burning women and incense sticks.