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On Domestic Violence: Model Minority, Private Pain
*Written by Kanchan Naik, Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of The Roar *Content note: discussion of domestic violence. Forty-five-year-old Mamta Shah met her second husband at a student union in 2012, and they soon shared a cramped Houston apartment to begin their new life together. Shah had recently fled Nepal and an abusive marriage, gaining asylum […]
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