Weekly Featured- News Photographs in the month of July
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A scene on the street: Monkeys hungrily devouring the food as passer-bys provide them with food.
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| Uploaded on: July 27th,2001
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This festival which falls at the end of the Nepalese month of Shrawan,celebrates the exorcism of the mythical demon Ghantakarna .A man impersonates Ghantakarna by smearing himself with paint and roaming the streets with a begging bowl asking for donations.
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| Uploaded on: July 21st,2001
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Daughter of Surendra and Reena Shakya, Preeti Shakya,four, has been recently selected as the new Kumari of Nepal. Kumari, the "living goddess", is considered to be an incarnation of the goddess "Taleju" and is a revered figure in the society.
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| Uploaded on: July 13th,2001
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Like many of her friends,Srijana, a six years old girl of Bhaktapur, has her future confined in working in fields.
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| Uploaded on: July 6th,2001
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