KATMANDU: Female rice farmers are ploughing their fields at night in the nude to please the rain God during a dry spell, a news report said yesterday.
A 35-year-old farmer, Ambika Tharu, said she and other women were daring to bare all for the rain God because of a delay in the annual monsoon season and the need for precipitation for their rice crops.
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