Apr 11

bisket, jatra, bhaktpaur, thaumadi, chariot, festivals, nepal

Pictures of Bisket Jatra from Thaumadi, Bhaktapur. It’s always fun to watch this festival as the chariot is pulled from 2 side. It’s like watching a tug or war between 2 side of the city .

This time I have tried to capture picture with long exposure to give different feel than the ones I have captured before.

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Mar 13

Holi, colors, festivals, nepal, kathmandu, girls

Wish You All Happy Holi

Holi is festival  of colors. Since few years the trend of celebrating the festival is  changing. when I was teenager, we hardly used to see girls getting out of house and playing holi. Now a days we see lots of girls getting out of house and playing holi. May be it is a sign of freedom, independence and self confidence.

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Nov 26

bouddha, Bouddha Nath, Nepal, UNESCO, world heritage, site

This week Photowalk Nepal selected Bouddhanath as their photowalk destination. The theme of this week photowalk was Night Photography. Since I had already capture the night photograph of this place last week, I tried to capture some of the picture before the dusk.

In my previous post I did post some picture of Bouddha Stupa taken at night, in this post you can see picture taken at evening. hope you will enjoy watching them.

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Nov 24
Bouddhanath stupa after reconstruction/renovation
Bouddha is the first monument that has been renovated after it was damaged by 2015 Earthquake. This monument is listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO.

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Nov 13

Kartik Naach festival being shown in Patan Durbar Square, Nepal

In Hindu mythology, Lord Vishnu has 10 different avatar and one of them is of Narsingha.

The musical play which is played at Patan Durbar Square every year features the story of Pralad, Hiranyakaishapu and Narsingha avatar. This musical dance show is more than 300 years old and still the local people of Patan have preserved it and perform this every year.

Here I have few snap shots of this musical play.

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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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