Tag: #tihar
Articles tagged with #tihar
Dark Tihar
No Bhai Tika for families of youth killed in the GenZ protests
Kathmandu’s street-smart dogs
Photos: GOPEN RAIIt is that time of the year again when we Nepalis worship various members of the animal kingdom. Cows and crows, bulls and dogs…
Holier than thou
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIEven as the entire nation gets ready for another week of holidays this month, we have to grudgingly accept that…
Gambling with our future
Dasain this year was a washout, but with the rains gone it is looking brighter for the approaching festivals of Tihar, Mha Puja and…
A walk in the memory
How a dog came to be a woman's source of freedom
Ass Tihar
You might have noticed that the Festival of Lights is called Tihar in Nepal. This is unfortunate, because that is also the name of the…
Hitting the sweet spot this Tihar
The Rajkarnikar family has been running its confectionary shop in Patan for four generations
Sons of bitches
It’s that time of year again when dogs are gods in Catmandu, and as we involuntarily get the urge to raise our hind-legs when passing a…
Nepalis e-shop for 11.11 and beyond
Online shopping did not take off in Nepal for the longest time. It took the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns that restricted movement for the…
Adventures of a Kathmandu street dog
An illustration from the book 'Sathi' by Jenny Campbell Nepal is a land of despair and hope. Despite enormous hardships, Nepalis have learnt to…
Rani Pokhari open for Bhai Tika
All photos: BIKRAM RAIRani Pokhari’s Bal Gopaleshwor Temple was opened to the public for the first time after the 2015 earthquake on Monday. The…
With temples locked up, Nepalis improvise
A girl worships in a locked up Ganesh temple in Kuleshwor in Kathmandu this week. All photos: Rajani MaharjanFor decades, Dhanamaya Singh…
Every day is Dog Day
Kathmandu’s community canines already seem to sense that their special day is coming soon on 14 November, Kukur Tihar. That is when they are…
A light for Tihar
The festival of light is upon us this week, and the Prajapatis of Bhaktapur are busy with their ancestral occupation of moulding clay to make…
No broom boom in Kathmandu this year
All photos: BIKRAM RAIAny other year, the months leading to and during the festive season of Dasain and Tihar would be the busiest for…
Preparing for a muted Tihar
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAThis year's Dasain was a subdued affair as it coincided with Covid-19 spreading like wildfire across Nepal, and…
Bhaktapur celebrates Gai Tihar
The third day of Tihar is Gai Tihar which celebrates cows. Cows are seen as a symbol of mother and nurture because they give nourishing milk.…
Kukur Biralo Tihar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSdkCxu9PkoRead also:Creatures of cultureIn an Animal Farm, EditorialA dog with altitude, Sonam Choekyi LamaAll…
Creatures of Culture
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIAs befitting a country whose patron deity is The Lord of Animals, Nepal’s autumn festival cycle is about offering…
Saving Nepal’s last wild dogs
Wild dogs get a bad press in Nepal, almost as bad as hyenas. The fact that the Nepali word for the wild dog (bwanso) is also used to refer to…
Waiting till the cows come home
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West…
A dog with altitude
Photos: SONAM CHOEKYI LAMAThe large shaggy dog with a great mane, thoughtful droopy eyes and a deep bark that echoes across Himalayan crags is…
In an Animal Farm
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIGeorge Orwell wrote 1984 to warn us about tyranny perpetuated by fear, and Animal Farm to tell an allegorical tale…
Kathmandu’s Ranjana renaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFNPi-Yt_cOver the Tihar festival this month, while most people were busy worshipping crows, dogs and cows, an…