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Zinara Rathnayake is an independent journalist with bylines in the BBC, CNN, Nikkei Asia, the Guardian and others. She writes about travel, food, culture, gender and environment in Asia, covering everything from Northeast India's root bridges to coffee culture in Laos. Read more at zinararathnayake.com.
For years, fear and social norms kept many women in one of Asia’s top surfing destinations away from the water. Then they started riding the waves.
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