It doesn't matter how much she is compensated. My issue is the confinement of a child to serve somebody's idea of a culture. Anita Shakya (1978-1984) is an ex-Kumari. Read this: She struggled in school and still feels uncomfortable in public or around other people, even her extended family. Solitude and silence, states of existence she grew accustomed to in the Kumari Ghar, are still the ones she prefers today. Once a Kumari reaches puberty, she's thrown out into the world with $40 a month. She's asked to live a different life to the one she's known since she was a little child. At age 12-13, she has to go to school with 6-7 year olds. There are positives and negatives in every culture. This is definitely a negative one. Don't use a little child to satisfy your false sense of culture and nationalism.