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KATHMANDU, MARCH 8As a child, Shanti Chaudhari was scolded by her parents for standing too close to a group of musicians playing the naumati baja, Nepal's nine traditional instruments, because they were identified with the Damai, part of the lowest caste that was formerly known as "untouchables




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