STORY: Revelers in Kathmandu filled the Bashantapur Darab Square with color, smearing each other with paint and dancing in the streets. Ancient Indian traditions forbid widows from participating in ...

Spring is in the air. On Holi on 6 and 7 March, people shower each other with coloured water and paint faces with pigment. Holi is fun, flirtatious, and philosophical: marking the passing of seasons ...

The fact that the festival of Holi is celebrated on two different days in Nepal this week is itself an indication of how the mountains and plains of Nepal are culturally united. In many places in ...

Holi festivities kicked off in Nepal on Friday with the ancient Chir tradition -sacred bamboo Chir was upraised at the Basantapur Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Kathmandu. The ...

Holi, widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, is a joyful annual celebration at the advent of spring with cultural and religious significance. Typically observed in March in India, Nepal, other ...

Holi, the festival of colours is being celebrated with fanfare and religious fervour in Nepal; Holi is also known as Phagu Poornima in Nepal. People from all age groups celebrating Holi with ...

Kathmandu: Thousands of people gathered at the heart of Kathmandu on Sunday to celebrate the Holi festival that marks the advent of spring in Nepal. Widely known as the Hindu festival of colours, the ...

People smear colored powder on each other's faces during the celebration of the Holi Festival at Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur, Nepal, March 24, 2024. Holi, the festival of colors, marks the ...

A man is smeared with colored powder in the face during the celebration of Holi Festival on the Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 6, 2023.(Photo: Xinhua) A woman smeared with colored ...

Dancing on Sydney trains for a Nepali folk song music video Like the Vedas, the Mundhums are Limbu community's hymns. Now it has been published for the first time.