The festive season in Nepal commenced on September 17 with the vibrant celebration of the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu.

Nepal on Monday honoured 504 young girls under the age of 12 as part of an annual ritual believed to ward off bad luck and ...

Kumari Puja is celebrated through the ceremonious worship of young girls as manifestations of the divine female energy or ...

Nepal’s living deities, Kumari, Ganesh and Bhairav embarked on a tour of the inner areas of Kathmandu as part of Indra Jatra ...

Nepal’s monthslong festival season has begun with tens of thousands of devotees pulling a wooden chariot with a young girl ...

Pre-pubescent girls dressed as the living goddess Kumari sat in rows based on their allotted numbers to be worshipped, a ritual believed to ward off bad luck and disease. A total of 504 girls, all ...

Only in the remote mountain fastness of Nepal did the practice of glorifying prepubescent girls (in Nepali the word “kumari” means “virgin girl”) as living goddesses for years at a time ...

Living Goddess Kumari is carried for the chariot procession during the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept. 17, ...

On Tuesday, The Dwarika’s Hotel in Kathmandu recreated the festivities of Indra Jatra, one of the valley’s largest cultural ...

Nepal on Monday honoured 504 young girls under the age of 12 as part of an annual ritual believed to ward off bad luck and illnesses. Locally known as "Kumari Pooja," young Newari girls gather ...