Wednesday is the first day of Songkran, the Thai New Year, a festival that was once primarily characterized by paying respects to one's elders by gently pouring water over their hands, and by sprinkling statues of the Buddha with water. In recent times, though, the festival has earned a more ominous moniker: the Seven Days of […]
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