Outrage in Nepal after actress kills herself over nude photo

KATHMANDU: Nepal''s film community isangrily demanding action against the press after a budding 24-year-old actresskilled herself over a nude photograph of her published in atabloid.
Shrisha Karki, a former model and TV actress who was beginning tofind jobs on the big screen, hanged herself on October 13, four days after thenewspaper printed the picture.
The suicide has outraged the film communityin the Himalayan kingdom, which tends to have puritanical views on nudity, andhas even brought words of condemnation from the prime minister.
Peopleclose to the actress said she was devastated by the photograph that appeared inthe Jana Ashtha, a left-leaning weeklythat is widely read for its exposes of official corruption.
Her fiance wasscandalized by the photo and, even though she tried to explain her side of thestory, severed the relationship.
The final straw, a colleague of the lateactress said, was when Karki walked into a beauty salon. A woman working at theparlor told her, "You''re in a well-covered dress today. It seems you''re used tobeing naked."
Karki stormed out and a few hours later her body was foundhanging from the staircase of her home.
Nearly 500 Nepalese film actors andproducers have joined forces to demand action against the tabloid and its editorKishor Shrestha, who has been in hiding since the suicide.