Mero Dhangadhi

Bijaya dashami ko hardik mangalmaya subhakamana!

Happy Dashain to all of my wonderful followers!! Hope you have a wonderful time this dashain with family and if your family isn’t nearby then I hope you can at least have Skype-tika with them!

For this dashain I want to do something different on this blog. I would like you guys to send me pictures of you celebrating dashain. Submit to this blog or post it in your own blog and tag me in it, whichever you prefer. I’ll also be checking the most recent “dashain” tag on here so you can post it there too. Pictures of dashain food or tika with your family or tika tray or a selfie of you with tika on… whatever it may be, make sure it’s Dashain related and send them my way! I feel like a lot of people have a set image of what Nepalis look like but that’s most likely inaccurate since there is no one “Nepali look”. Nepali people come in all different shapes and sizes and shades, and we all celebrate dashain differently or at least have some little things that vary from family to family. I want to show that diversity on this blog.

Once again have a wonderful and prosperous Dashain!!

supermaanis-blog:

Two girls enjoying the swing during Dashain at Pharping,Kathmandu.

ourwarofwords:

henryswilliamcavill:

mistykniqht:

if you’re not indian, sri lankan, pakistani bangladeshi, indo-carribean and/or hindu then don’t wear a fucking bindi thank you and good night

and where are the afghan hindus in this ugly text post? because they exist :-)

@nepal Nepalis, too!

Absolutely! Don’t forget Fijians and many Africans of South Asian descent.

arjuna-vallabha:

Sarasvati deity, Nepal

gray-card:

Nepalis worship Bhaktapur’s newly appointed child goddess

A woman worships Jibika Bajracharya, the newly appointed child goddess Kumari, in the street on October 7, 2016 in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

The Bhaktapur Kumari is a living child goddess and is an ancient tradition in Kathmandu Valley as devotees worship the newly appointed child goddess in order to receive blessings from ancestors or deities.

As the new Kumari of Bhaktapur, Jibika Bajracharya performs her role in public during the 15-day long Dashain festival while spending the rest of the year as a goddess living a normal life with her parents at home until she is replaced at 11 years old.

(Tom Van Cakenberghe/Getty Images)