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TO GO WITH Nepal-women-religion-society-chhaupadi,FEATURE by Frankie Taggart Nepalese villager Chandrakal Nepali (C) eats as children look on in the village of Achham, some 800kms west of Kathmandu on November 23, 2011. Isolation is part of a centuries-old Hindu ritual known as chhaupadi which is blamed for prolongued depression, young women's deaths and high infant mortality rates in remote, impoverished western Nepal. Under the practice women are prohibited from participating in normal family activities during menstruation and after childbirth. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Indian police personnel stop Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supporters following a raid at the GJM office in Darjeeling on June 15, 2017.

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Manda Shastrakar sits with her family on the steps of her home in Vidarbha. Her husband committed suicide on January 14 this year. Her husband doused himself with kerosene and burned himself. He died on the spot, near the steps where the family now sits. He was steeped in debt.

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Indian security personnel stand being a poster of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as he delivers religious teachings at the Buddha Stadium in Bomdila in India's north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh state on April 5, 2017. The Dalai Lama is visiting the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, where he first crossed into the country, and where he is scheduled to hold a series of teachings. / AFP PHOTO / Biju BORO (Photo credit should read BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images)

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