Bhai Tika Marks Conclusion of Nepal’s Five-Day Tihar Festival

With the celebration of Bhai Tika, the five-day Tihar festival of Nepal concluded on Thursday. Bhai Tika is the final and major day of the Tihar festival, on which sisters offer seven tika colours to their brothers, wishing them happiness, long lives, and prosperity. To observe the Bhai Tika, the brothers are seated at a specially anointed place around which a trail of mustard oil is drawn. The sisters then offer the brothers seven colours of tika and garlands of makhamali flowers. After placing...