Festivals
Bhaktapur is also known as city of festivals and celebrations. The city celebrates festivals each month starting from new year to the Holi puni at the end of the year.
- Bisket jatra (New year festival)
- Mother's Day (Mathathirtha Aunshi)
- Buddha purnima (Buddha purnima)
- Kumar Khasti (SithiNakha)
- Gathamaga charya
- Gaijatra (Guni purnima)
- Father's day (Aushi)
- Indra jatra (Pulukishi)
- Dashain (Nawarat)
- Tihar (Kija puja)
- Sakima puni
- Dhanya purnima (Yomari purnima)
- Maghe sankranti (Ghya-chaku sankranti) (Makar Sankranti)
- Shree panchami
- Shiva ratri
- Holi (Holi purnima)
- Karkat sakranti (celebrated on Shrawan 1 of Nepali Calendar)
- Chhat parba (Praying of rise and set of sun)
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“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)