A ritual of shaving head, reciting mantras, showering flower and lava, putting tika, dhup batti. Time came for boys to get rid of their clothes and put on pitambar langots.

Mother's day or Mata Tirtha falls on the last day of the dark fortnight of April and is also the first festival of Nepali New Year.

The majority of the wildfires in Nepal are caused by humans, and still, we are unable to minimize them. The situation highlights the need for an effective awareness drive.

Vipassana, the art of living, is an ancient meditation technique preached by Gautam Buddha, is a philosophy of “clear seeing” or “insight” characterized by the practice to see things as they really are, instead of how we want them to be.