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New Year Celebration In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 14, 2015: Nepalese have many new-year celebrations. One of them is the Vikram calendar. The first day of New Year following Vikram calendar is April 14. Many ethnic Nepalese have their own new years but most of them remained dormant for 240-year rule of the dynastic and despotic rule of Rana/Shah. These tyrannical rulers did not allow the ethnic people to celebrate their new-year festivals. The end of the monarchy in 2008 revealed a number of new-year celebrations.
The Rana/Shah clique had imposed the Vikram calendar replacing the national calendar called Nepal Samvat about one hundred years ago. It was the killing of national pride. The Rana/Shah did not feel like Nepalese, as they had been for suppressing anything Nepalese. They imported the Vikram calendar. They imported the foreign architecture for constructing their palaces.
Adopting the Vikram calendar had made the already slow Nepalese bureaucracy even clumsy. The officials had to use the Gregorian calendar for working with the international agency and foreign bilateral agencies. They had to use the universal calendar for the Nepalese passports, too. Then what was for the Vikram calendar? It was to suit the ego of the Rana/Shah rulers. First, they took the pride in disusing the Nepal Samvat. Second, they boasted that they were the descendants of the Vikramaditya: the mythical king that ruled somewhere in the current India.
KP Oli had celebrated the Vikram calendar New Year at his new home in Balkot, Bhaktapur. He had a fun with the panche baza group. He said that he was for preserving the culture. We hope KP Oli would keep his words. He played the drum with the music troupe. He looked like the main figure in the troupe while playing the drum. We hope it was not the steroid working in him.
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