Now in power, Nepal’s rapper-politician Balen Shah faces new challenge
Shah was a rebel – crude and different from the politicians who previously led Nepal. How will he be in office?

Shah was a rebel – crude and different from the politicians who previously led Nepal. How will he be in office?





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