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...Michigan Daily’s editors found instances of plagiarism in four articles written by Michigan undergraduate Devika R. Daga, according to a letter from The Daily’s editor-in-chief, Karl A. Stampfl...
...dressed in cast-off clothes from her customers and friends. At the end of each day she goes home to a tiny room she cannot afford?it costs her $2 a month. She owes a year's rent and earns just enough to buy food. Devika Khadka Chhetri is illiterate; her family was too poor to send her to school and she was married off at the age of 18. It was a bad marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him a son?or even a daughter. So he threw...
...Devika is one of thousands of Nepali women who endure social injustice and discrimination, most of it sanctified by religion?and ignored by law. This Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas is a man's world, and it seems determined to stay that way. A two-year attempt to change the civil code and go some way toward putting women on an equal footing with men has been bogged down in the national assembly for more than a month by opposition protests against government corruption and, along with other legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four...
Consider the plight of Devika, who gets no alimony because she is not legally divorced. Polygamy has been outlawed since 1963, but it is not unusual for men to dump their wives if they don't produce children. She has gone to court nonetheless, to see what the system can do for her. Once a week she travels to a women's center outside the capital where cases like hers are picked up and pursued through the courts. "I know that I'll get something out of this process," she tells a counselor at the center, wagging a finger...
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