Word: khadka
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...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...