Oct 31

Nhu daya bhintuna, nepal sambat, newari, girls, culture, nepal, kathmandu, festival, new year

Every year Newar community from different places of Nepal celebrated the Nepal sambat .  I haven’t got the chance to see the rally form other city but I manage to go to Basantapur at Kathmandu to observe this rally. This year I manage to capture some portraits

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Sep 17

ladies, nepal, indra, jatra, drunk, drink, swet, bhairav, bhairab

For the past few years, long festivals in Kathmandu valley started allocating a day just for girls. There is a special day where only girls pull the Red Macchindra Charoit. Similarly during Indra Jatra too there is one day allocated for girls to pull the chariot of Kumari, Ganesh and Bhairab.

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Apr 09

A unique way of celebrating new year, which starts 4 days before the Nepali New year. Its a festival where there is rivalry between people participating to pull the chariot upward or downward the Taumadi square at Bhaktapur.

biket jatra, nepal, bhaktapur, festival, newar, new year, naya barsha

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Feb 18
Pashupatinath Temple during the Maha Shivaratri Festival

Pashupatinath Temple during the Maha Shivaratri Festival

Pashupatinath temple, a Hindu temple on the banks of the river bagmati dedicated to lord Shiva. It is one of the biggest shrine for Hindu devotees. It is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.

Every year on the day of Maha Shivaratri many people visit the temple, at night it just looks majestic with all these colourful lights. Here are some picture which I captured today.

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Feb 02

Temple of Bajrayogini

Month of Magh and Sali nadi is like synonyms. As hindus in Nepal worship goddess Swasthani and read story about her, many hindu devotees take fasting for a month and worship Madhavnaryan.

I happen to go to Sali nadi this year after a long gap. It was late afternoon, I could not see much action to capture by my camera. So, after worshiping the river I went to Bajrayogini temple north form the city of Sakhu.

Here is a short information on the Temple of Bajrayogini from the website site www.roughguides.com

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Oct 24

Namaste - Wish You Happy New Year Nepal Sambat 1135Namaste – Wish You Happy New Year Nepal Sambat 1135

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Sep 13

Photo taken in front of Swet Bhairab during Indra Jatra with Mr. Subin Kumar Kushle

How does the new face of Swet Bhairav Look ?

Today was the last day of Indra Jatra. I wanted to take some picture of girls day of Indra Jatra, which happens to be on 3rd day which came to know today. I got wrong information that today was girls day. It would have been fun capturing all these crazy girls trying reach the pipe that’s coming out from the Swet Bhairav mouth to get the taste of drinks which will make them more crazy.

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