Mha Puja

Mha Pujā 

Mha Puja is an annual ritual performed by the Newar people of Nepal to purify and empower the soul as part of New Year celebrations. It is performed on New Year's Day of Nepal Sambat, the national lunar calendar of Nepal, which occurs during the Swanti (Tihar) festival.

Mha Puja means "worship of the self", and it celebrates the spirit within oneself. The ceremony signifies an auspicious beginning of the New Year, and invokes prosperity and longevity for the participant.  Mha Puja and Nepal Sambat are also celebrated abroad where Nepalese have settled.

Sketch of Nepalese Mha Pujā Mandala

_Courtesy- wikipedia

Drinking water problems in sankhu

Although sankhu was anciently well developed and well managed city. But  modernisation and developement also bought lots of changes and rapid change in population made lack of resources in sankhu. As sankhu was the transit point and naturally rich city in history. But these days like rest part of country people of sankhu is also facing lots of problems.
Among so many problems drinking water problem is most important and people of sankhu are very much keen interested upon the problem of drinking water. As drinking clean and hygene water is necesity of people who live sankhu and surrounding. In ancient time there was enough well  to drink water. But time changed so there is low water level in sankhu area one hand,  in other hand population incresement is also major reason of lack of water.
Modernization and education made conscious level high. So most of people of sankhu knew how to use water in home in different purposes. So to live healthy life water is really important.  Beside wells people of sankhu were using tap water from few decades. That source of water was made by Leder Ganesh Man Singh. So no need to say that was really old. So that was intended to people of sankhu 60 years before. At that time that water is not enough to people of sankhu.