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yenya

Yeṃ Yāḥ

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

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

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...

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