Dressed in a graduation gown and felt hat, Chanira Bajracharya looks just like the hundreds of other students gathered for a ceremony at a private university in central Nepal.
But the bespectacled 21-year-old, who graduated in November with a business degree and is now pursuing an MBA, was once worshipped by thousands of people and carried in gilded chariots during festivals in the ancient city of Patan, south of Kathmandu.
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