JULY 14, 2019 • THE WEEK 11IN LOVE
WITH THE
EARTH
An elderly man from
Dhading district in
Nepal plays in a paddy
fi eld on ‘Asar Pandhra’,
the national paddy
day. The offi cial paddy
plantation day, which
comes in the middle
of the Nepali month of
Asar, fell on June 30
this year.
APERITIF
THE BIG PICTURE