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Nepal celebrates Gai Jatra festival to lead dead to heaven
Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2012
KATHMANDU, Aug 9 — Hundreds of young boys, their faces smeared with mascara and painted as cows, trot barefoot along the streets of Nepal’s capital in the Gai Jatra festival, the procession of cows. The annual event, usually in August or September, is one of the Himalayan nation’s most popular festivals. Families who have lost a relative during ....
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