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World Service,5 mins

Rice planting, singing and mudslinging

The Fifth Floor

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This week Nepalis have been celebrating Ropain, the rice planting festival. Rice is a staple food, and when monsoon starts everyone has to pitch in, even young professionals. 麻豆社 Nepali's Matina Twanabasu has been juggling her reporting shifts with working in the family's Bhaktapur paddy fields. (Photo: Two Nepali women having fun with mud. Credit: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)

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