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Southasian sex workers defied the iconic feminist’s view of “prostitution” as “commercial rape” – and built a movement for their own empowerment
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A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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Anuradha Roy’s new book chronicles more than two decades of life in a hill station in the Indian Himalaya, where the pleasures of home and the allure of the mountains are inseparable from ecological crisis
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
