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Yeṃ Yāḥ

Kathmandu’s Great Autumn Festival that celebrates the rain god for a bountiful rice harvest

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Nepali aerospace engineer pens a children’s book that touches on migration, mental health, racism and identity

Sonia Awale

Kathmandu marks the Yen yā festival

Patan has Rato Machindranath, Bhaktapur has Biska, and the Newā people of Kathmandu have Yen yā as their biggest festival.Also known as...

Wine and women during Yenya

Indra Jatra was improvised to allow women-only events and made way for changes in society

Pratibha Tuladhar

Nepal’s contentious Constitution Day

Nepal’s new federal constitution was promulgated in 2015, but even six years later it is a contested document. While President Bidya Devi...

Once in a Halloween Blue Moon in Kathmandu

Unlike in the West, people of the Himalaya are totally at ease with the mystery of their lunar calendar

Lisa Choegyal

Walkabout with Anil: Indra Jatra

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The legend behind the myth of Indra Jatra

Indra Jatra, or Yenya, commemorates the descent of a god from heaven dressed in peasant's clothes and bent on a very human...

Getting behind the divine mask

As Kathmandu got ready to celebrate Yenya Punhi (Indra Jatra) with its Kumari chariot procession last week, the masked dancers were also...

Are you ready for Indra Jatra?

This week Kathmandu celebrates Indra Jatra — the chariot festival presided over by none other than the Living Goddess Kumari.Locally known as Yenyā, the...

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