Sky Burial (extract)
Kathmandu is magnificent and complex. It’s a place of immense richness and equal poverty; co-existence and integration of distinct religious traditions; and continuing challenges for women. The Himalayan villages are in one respect more progressive than the city: while for generations men worked outside, women ran teahouses - and, in the world of modern tourism, this has transitioned into women running businesses.
In Sky Burial, Bidhya’s deceased husband was a porter. On their backs he carried deliveries while she carried their child. Now Bidhya has an impossible path ahead of her.
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