Word: nepali
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...inflicted by the ten-year civil war in which both sides were guilty of forced recruitment, extortion and extrajudicial killings. Crippling rural poverty and decades of ethnic disenfranchisement are now also coming to a head: criminal elements and vigilante cadres of the Maoists run rampant in parts of the Nepali countryside, while the lowland region of the Tarai - whose ethnically Indian inhabitants comprise 40% of Nepal's population but remain politically marginalized - has been gripped for months by strikes and political violence...
...ancient kingdom has remained mostly isolated from the modern world: The Nepali government has allowed trekking there only since 1991 and allows just 1000 foreigners to enter each year. The road, the trucks, the commerce between the giant nations of China and India will cause a sea change in Upper Mustang...
...When ushered in to meet the old king of Mustang in his castle of 108 mud rooms, I asked him in my best Nepali how he thought the road would change the area. He replied it would be good economically, but detrimental culturally and environmentally; and his eyes grew melancholy...
Patricia McCormick is not the kind of writer who sits at her keyboard waiting for inspiration. She's the kind of writer who finagles her way into a Kathmandu jail to interview a young Nepali man awaiting trial. He told McCormick without a hint of embarrassment that he had sold his fiancé. Why? "Because I wanted a motorcycle," he replied. He then laughed with his jailers, knowing he would probably...
...journeyed with a group rescuing prostitutes to a tiny Nepali village, where mothers were warned that the adolescent daughters they thought they were sending to jobs in the city were actually being sold into the sex trade. In many cases, it transpired, a family member--a brother, a father or an uncle--had made the sale...