Second-Class Citizens

The peanut seller sits on the edge of Thankot village square outside Kathmandu. She's 33 and dressed in cast-off clothes from her customers and friends. At the end of each day she goes home to a tiny room she cannot affordit costs her $2 a month. She owes a year's rent and earns just enough to buy food. Devika Khadka Chhetri is illiterate; her family was too poor to send her to school and she was married off at the age of 18. It was a bad marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him...