The forbidden love stories of the Nepalese caste system Uptrends
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – The constitution here guarantees the right to marry anyone, but that didn’t matter when Manoj Kumar Ram, a 22-year-old Dalit, married a woman from an upper caste. Instead, his wife’s family accused him of kidnapping her and Ram ended up in prison. Ram’s wife, Babita Isar, says her father wanted to marry … Read more