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The Jain religious community in India makes up less than than 1% of the population. A steady number of them — even children — are renouncing the material world to join Jain monasteries.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend, so they say, but Devanshi Sanghvi would disagree. She was heiress to her family's $60m-plus diamond empire, but decided instead to take her vows as sadhvi - or nun - in the Jain religion, aged just eight. Jainism...
Eight-year-old Devanshi Sanghvi would now live as a nun, eat only what she received in alms, avoid using any kind of technology, not bathe, and even give up all her familial relations
Devanshi Sanghvi turned down her parents’ multibillion-rand diamond empire fortune to become a Hindu nun.
Activists say Devanshi's vows of renunciation that make her a Jain nun are a violation of her rights.