Alone and in pain, Tulasi Shahi encountered a poisonous snake. The Nepali woman had been banished to her uncle's cowshed as per the “chaupadi” tradition, a centuries-old practice common among Hindus in the western regions of Nepal, though it was outlawed in 2005. Some communities there consider women “impure” while they are menstruating. These women are prohibited from […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/07/10/a-nepali-teen-was-banished-to-a-dark-shed-for-having-her-period-a-snake-bite-killed-her/
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