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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. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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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