Tihar 2K75

Tihar is the second biggest festival of Nepal after dashain. It is celebrated for five days. The first day of tihar is called kag tihar. The second day of tihar is called kukur tihar. The third day of tihar is called laxmi puja. The fourth day of tihar is called govardhan puja. And the last day of tihar is called Bha tika.

I did not play deusi bhailo at tihar. I went to the bazaar with my friends and brothers. We blasted bombs, jammed on the night and had fun. I also went to koshi river with my family. I returned to kathmandu 2 days after tihar.

DASHAIN 2K75

Dashain is celebrated to mark the victory, according to Hindu religious writings, of Ramayan over the evil demon-king, Ravana, and over the demon Mahisasur, who cruelly terrorised the people of India in the form of a raging water buffalo. The Hindu goddess Durga was said to be instrumental in winning these victories, so she is especially worshiped at this time. In general, the holiday season of Dashain is a celebration of “the triumph of good over evil,” though it is tied to specific Hindu stories. It has special significance in Hinduism and is celebrated for 15 days.

My dashain experience was awesome!! ,even though my family could not celebrate it because of my grandfather's death.. Every time dashain vacation starts I get only one thought in my mind "Going to village!!". I don't know why but every time I go to my village I get a different feeling and that feeling is awesome because I get to meet my childhood friends and do weird stuffs and dangerous stunts with them. One day I was on the bus park with my friends, they were doing just random bicycle stunts and suddenly one of my childhood friend came up with an idea of jumping the bicycle in high speed off the cemented roof which was more than 2 and a half foot high. At first everyone of us except him thought it was dangerous. But at last everyone agreed to do it taking turns. My friend who came up with the idea was doing it first. So, as agreed he jumped the bicycle, the jump was successful but unfortunately the landing was worse!! After the jump he flew off the bicycle like superman and fell down on the ground. He was hurt very badly. He got a hole on his forehead and on his cheek. Firstly all of us laughed but after we saw his condition all of us were worried. We called an auto and took him to the hospital. he got two stitches on his forehead and two on his cheek. The doctor told him to rest for a few days. After getting the stitches we took him to his house. He stayed on his house for a few days. After five days he came to meet us at the same place. We had some normal talk and then all of us including him laughed so hard till our stomach ached remembering his stupid idea.. We played carrom board at a hotel for some times . Then we went to the bazaar visited some places and went to a hotel, ate some foods and returned to my house. We stayed late till the night randomly jamming some songs. Then we slept at 2:00 am in the morning at my place. I also played a football tournament at my village. I used to go to play football in the ground that was in the bazaar with the brothers of Phidim Sporting Club. They were very nice to me. I also went to my mamaghar. I stayed there for six days. Even though I didn't celebrate dashain, I made amazing memories.

TEEJ

Teej

is a generic name for a number of Hindu festivals that are celebrated by women mainly in Nepal and some parts of India. Hartalika Teej welcomes the monsoon season and is celebrated primarily by girls and women, with songs, dancing and prayer rituals. The monsoon festivals of Teej are primarily dedicated to Goddess Parvati and her union with Lord Shiva.

Teej refers to the monsoon festivals, observed particularly in western and northern states of India, Nepal, and in some Southern states of India such a Telangana. The festivals celebrate the bounty of nature, arrival of clouds and rain, greenery and birds with social activity, rituals and customs.The festivals for women, include dancing, singing, getting together with friends and telling stories, dressing up with henna-coloured hands and feet, wearing red, green or orange clothes, sharing festive foods, and playing under trees on swings on Haryali Teej. The festivals are dedicated, in many parts of India and Nepal, to Parvati. Dedicated to the Goddess Parvarti, commemorating her union with Lord Shiva, the festival is celebrated for well-being of spouse and children and purification of one's body and soul. The festival is a three-day-long celebration that combines sumptuous feasts as well as rigid fasting. Teej is celebrated by women, for the long life of her husband and long and firm relationship between them in this life and all the lives to come. The folk music and dances add more flavor to traditional values of Teej. Women in red dance and sing in the street, going to temple in holy and fasting mood. Teej is also called Haritalika Teej. This festival is celebrated by Nepali Hindu women all across the world.

MY FATHER

My Father

My father's name is Sandip Lawati. He is 35 years old. He is a businessman. He is the one who works hard everyday for my family. He is the closest person to me. He is  very loving, caring and helpful person. He tells me everyday that to give something to needy person, never hold back. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. he is the reason i smile everyday. I love you dad!

JANAI PURNIMA

 JANAI PURNIMA

Janai Purnima is observed in the month of Shrawan. It is called Rakshya Bandhan as this festival observes the bond of purity and security.  This festival is celebrated by Hindus all over the world. 

Janai Purnima is Sacred Thread Festival. On this day, Hindu men, especially the Brahmins and Chettris perform their annual change of Janai and all who celebrates this festival put a scared thread around their wrist.

What is Janai

Janai is a cotton string worn across the chest by Hindu male. This thread is only given to males during a long and  impressive religious ceremony called Bratabandhan. Almost all the religion has type of Bratabandhan, but known by different names. Bratabandhan is basically a formal process of accepting someone in the religion.

  

The Janai initiates the boy into manhood and commands them to devotedly follow the religion and the path of truth. The Janai must be worn every day of their lives after they listen their mantra from the guru during the Bartabandha. 

Janai is regarded as symbol of body, speech and mind, and when the knots are tied the person wearing it is supposed to gain complete control over each of them.

This cord is changed if it becomes untidy or dishonored due to those acts which are forbidden by religion.  However, Janai must be changed without fail on Rakhsya Bandhan Day.

Meaning of Janai Purnima

Janai is sacred thread, and Purnima is full moon day,  thus it is Janai festival in the full moon day of Shrawan month of Bikram Sambat Calendar

When is Janai Purnima

Janai Purnima is on Shrawan Purnima. This year Janai Purnima is on Bhadra 12, 2072, that coincides with English Calendar date of August 29, 2015.

What do we do in Janai Purnima

A day before Janai purnima the persons wearing janai should make themselves 'clean' by shaving or cutting hair and take a good bath. They undergo a partial fasting, taking only one meal of foods considered to be 'clean' - no meat, no onions or garlic. Before big event Hindus prefer to clean their body by keeping fasting. Satvic food is prescribed for all Hindu ritual and festival. 

In the Purnima morning men usually go to rivers and ponds nearby, to take secret bath dipping himself thrice in the water. Men, then change their Janai. Break the old ones.  

However in cities, the family priest (Pandit / Puret) comes to the residence. The entire family gathers around pandit as he reads the importance and stories of the from a holy book (patro) and performs a ceremony, which purifies the new thread, and places it about the men’s neck across the chest. In a payment the priest is given foodstuffs and monies. The money is called Dakshina and other stuff are called Daan in Sanskrit.

RAKSHA BANDHAN

RAKSHA BANDHAN

Raksha Bandhan, also Rakshabandhan, or simply Rakhi, is a Hindu festival centred around the tying of a thread or ornamental bracelet on the right wrist as a form of bond and ritual protection between brother and sister. It's celebrated on the full moon day in the lunar month of Shravana. The day signifies the mutual bond of love between siblings.The festive Hindu and Jain ritual is one principally between brothers and sisters, observed both before and after she gets married thereby marking her continued relationship with her natal home and brothers. The rite is also found between priests and patrons, and sometimes by individuals to real or potential benefactors. Differing versions of the rite have been traditionally performed in northern India, western India,Nepal, and some Hindu, Jain and Sikh emigrants from the India since the 19th-century. It is alternately referred to as Saluno, Silono, and Rakri. The rituals associated with these rites, however, have spread beyond their traditional regions to much of India and have been transformed through technology and migration, the movies, social interaction, and promotion by politicized Hinduism, as well as as a occasion of national solidarity and state tradition. 

On this festival, sisters of all ages tie a cotton bracelet or amulet, called the rakhi, around the wrists of their brothers, ritually affirming the bond and support of her brothers, receiving a gift from them in return, and traditionally investing the brothers with a share of the responsibility of their potential care. The expression "Raksha Bandhan," Sanskrit, literally, "the bond of protection, obligation, or care," is now principally applied to this ritual. It has also applied to a similar ritual in which a domestic priest ties string bracelets on the wrists of his patrons and receives gifts of money. A ritual associated with Saluno includes the sisters placing shoots of barley behind the ears of their brothers. 

Of special significance to married women, Raksha Bandhan is rooted in the practice of territorial exogamy, in which a bride marries out of her natal village or town, and her parents, by custom, do not visit her in her married home. In rural north India, where territorial exogamy is strongly prevalent, large numbers of married Hindu women travel back to their parents' homes every year for the ceremony.Their brothers, who typically live with the parents or nearby, sometimes travel to their sisters' married home to escort them back. Many younger married women arrive a few weeks earlier at their natal homes and stay until the ceremony. The brothers serve as lifelong intermediaries between their sisters' married- and parental homes, as well as potential stewards of their security.

Among women and men who are not blood relatives, there is also a transformed tradition of voluntary kin relations, achieved through the tying of rakhi amulets, which have cut across caste and class lines, and Hindu and Muslim divisions. In some communities or contexts, other figures, such as a matriarch, or a person in authority, can be included in the ceremony in ritual acknowledgement of their benefaction. Raksha Bandhan is also celebrated by Hindu communities in other parts of the world. Although rooted in Hindu culture, the festival has no traditional prayers unambiguously associated with it. The religious myths claimed for it are disputed, and the historical stories associated with it considered apocryphal by some historians.

GAI JATRA

GAI JATRA

Sa Paru (also known as Gai Jatra), is the festival, celebrated in Nepal, mainly in Kathmandu valley by the Newar and the Tharu community. The festival commemorates the death of people during the year. During the festival, cows are marched in the streets and generally celebrated in the month of Bhadra (August–September). It falls on the 1st day of the dark fortnight of Gunla according to the lunar Nepal Era

calendar. People also distribute food to others. The festival of cows is one of the most popular festivals of Nepal. It is celebrated to remove the sadness of death of family members.

The whole complex of Sa Paru festival has its roots in the ancient ages for, the dead Parent.

• According to the traditions since time immemorial, every family who has lost one relative during the past year must participate in a procession through the streets of Kathmandu leading a cow. If a cow is unavailable then a young boy dressed as a cow is considered a fair substitute.
• In Hinduism, a cow is regarded the most venerated among all the domestic animals. It is believed that the cow, revered as a holy animal by Hindus, will help the deceased relative's journey to heaven.
• According to the historical evidence, when King Pratap Malla lost his son, his wife, the queen, remained grief-stricken. The king was very sad to see the condition of his beloved queen. The king, in spite of several efforts, could not lessen the grief of his wife. He desperately wanted to see a little smile on the lips of his sweetheart, and so he announced that anyone who made the queen laugh would be rewarded adequately.
• During the Sa Paru, the cow procession was brought before the grief-stricken queen. Then the participants began ridiculing and be-fooling the important people of the society. Finally, when the social injustices and other evils were highlighted and attacked mercilessly, the queen could not help but smile. The queen cried and the king instituted a tradition of including funny jokes, satire, monkey, and lagoons into the Sa Paru celebrating the day.

• After the procession is over, in the afternoon, nearly everyone takes part in another age-old tradition in which the participants dress up and wear masks. The occasion is filled with songs and jokes. Mockery and humor of every kind become the order of the day until late evening. Hence, Sa Paru is a healthy festival which enables the people to accept the reality of death and to prepare themselves for life after death. According to Hinduism, "whatever a man does in his life is a preparation leading to a good life after death".

QBASIC programs

1. Write a program to input any number and check whether the given number is divisible by 3 and 7 or not.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any number";N

IF N MOD 3=0 AND N MOD 7=0 THEN

PRINT "The number is divisible by 3 and 7"

ELSE

PRINT "The number is not divisible by 3 and 7"

END IF

END

2. Write a program to input any number and check whether the give number is positive or negative.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any number";N

IF N>0 THEN

PRINT "The given number is positive"

ELSEIF N<0 THEN

PRINT "The given number is negative"

END IF

END

3.Write a program to input any number and display whether it is odd or even.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any number";N

IF N MOD 2=0 THEN

PRINT "The given number is even"

ELSE

PRINT "The given number is odd"

END IF

END

4. Write a program to enter any two numbers and display the smaller one.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any two numbers";A,B

IF A<B THEN

PRINT "The smallest number is";A

ELSE

PRINT "The smallest number is";B

END IF

END

5.Write a program to enter any three numbers and display the middle number.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any three numbers";A,B,C

IF A>B AND A<C OR A<B AND A>C THEN

PRINT "The middle number is";A

ELSEIF B>A AND B<C OR B<A AND B>C THEN

PRINT "The middle number is";B

ELSE 

PRINT "The middle number is";C

END IF

END

6.Write a program to test whether a user input number is completely divisible by 13 or not.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any number";N

IF N MOD 13=0 THEN

PRINT "The number is completely divisible by 13"

ELSE

PRINT "The number is not completely divisible by 13"

END IF 

END

7.Write a program to check whether a input number is positive, negative or zero.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any number";N

IF N>0 THEN 

PRINT "The number is positive"

ELSEIF N<0 THEN 

PRINT "The number is negative"

ELSE

PRINT "The number is zero"

END IF

END

8. Write a program to input a year and display whether that year is a leap year or not.

CLS

INPUT "Enter year";Y

IF Y MOD 4=0 AND Y MOD 100 < > 0 OR Y MOD 400=0 THEN

PRINT "The year is leap year"

ELSE

PRINT "The year is not leap year"

END IF 

END

9. Input the age of a person and find out whether the person is eligible to drive or not.

CLS

INPUT "Enter your age";A

IF A>= 16 THEN

PRINT "You are eligible to drive"

ELSE

PRINT "You are not eligible to drive"

END IF 

END

10.Write a program to enter any three numbers and display the greatest one.

CLS

INPUT "Enter any three numbers"; A,B,C

IF A>B AND A>C THEN

PRINT "The greatest number is";A

ELSEIF B>A AND B>C THEN 

PRINT "The greatest number is";B

ELSE

PRINT "The greatest number is";C

END IF 

END