Aafreen, This is a distorted form of the facts u got my dear friend. these are the cultures which came into practice in the medival periods because of what ever junk reasons. but the so called sacred books of so called hindus have never ever said that a widow cant remarry or have to shave off her head. If you keenly observe , in mahabharata kunti didnt shave her head after her husband (king pandu) dies. and similarly u can seemany insances. These are not told in any veda or upanishads or geeta or what ever . all these dont speak of religion or lifestyle they speak abt the infinite. or the psycology .
