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This Post Originally Compiled for Tikijhya The Festival Fagu Purnima or Holi – The Festival of Colors, is one of the most colorful and playful festivals of Nepal. It is celebrated with great pomp and gaiety. The celebration is marked for a special day in which the entire country gets involved in Abir (special color) and get drenched in the colored water. Celebrations are of marked importance at Terai , the low lying plains in Nepal, where families and friends get together and celebrate the occasion with a lot of merry making. Normally this festival is celebrated around February-March on the day of Full Moon Night, and hence the name Fagu Purnima (Full Moon night of the month of Falgun as per the Nepali calendar). One interesting fact in Nepal is that Holi is celebrated ranging in 2 days, the first day celebrated in the hills and mid Nepal, and the next day celebrated in Terai region. The reason for this will be dealt in the legends section of this write up. The Legends There...

Festival of Hindu’s in Nepal Festivals: The rationale Every festival in Nepal traditionally begins with something religious and proceeds with spontaneous spirit. Our festivals are rooted in history, mythology and religion. They honor and propitiate the multitude of gods and control malicious spirits. A festival is a social occasion. It is an affirmation of the ancient and strong bonds of religion and culture. Festivals in Nepal are reckoned not only as occasions to indulge in eating, drinking and making merry but also as occasions when one is to devote some of one’s time to the worship of and meditation upon gods and goddesses in different forms. Maha Shivratri Maha Shivratri or Shivaratri ( Night of Shiva ) is a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the 14th day in the Krishna Paksha of the month Phalguna ( Normally later part of February, but not always) in the Hindu calendar. According to Hindu mythology Maha shivratri is the night when Lord Shiva himself was crea...