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  • A Cigarette (Beedi) Smoking Woman of Far West Nepal

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    I was traveling to Baitadi from Dadeldhura on the day after Dashain Tika last year. Traffic was thin on the road that spiraled through the rugged hills of, among others, Ghanaghashya. The Taranath Sharma essay “Ghanaghasya ko ukalo katda (घनघस्याको उकालो काट्दा)’ that I had read in school (10th grade) occupied my mind space as…