Buddhist nun challenges hatred of women

Jewel in the lotus: Ketumala showing others how to use a laptop for a Zoom group meeting at a monastery in Yangon. — AFP

IN a society where a popular saying urges women to “regard her son as her master and her husband as her god”, Buddhist nun Ketumala is already an outlier.

The 40-year-old walked away from traditional expectations of marriage and children as a teenager, and has instead spent more than two decades as a fierce advocate for the importance of women in religion.