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Celebrating Mother’s Day In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 21, 2012: every year on the last day of the dark fortnight of the month called Baishak in the Vikram calendar, Nepalis celebrate the Mother’s Day. This year it is on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
Nepalis having mothers alive go to shopping for various sweet dishes and some gifts to offer to their mothers while those not having mothers alive go the ‘Matatirtha’ about eight kilometers south of Kathmandu.
Actually, Nepalis start off buying sweets and gifts two to three days before the Mother’s Day. So, if anybody waits until the Mother’s Day, s/he will find nothing but scraps of sweets at all the stores in Kathmandu and the surrounding areas.
Nepalis believe that the souls of their deceased mothers come to ‘Matatirtha’ on this day, and they can see their mothers’ faces in the reflection of water in the pond. Most of them take a purification dip in the waters of the pond. Others make offerings called ‘shradha’ to their mothers.
