The Kumari is a young girl chosen through a series of ancient ceremonies and worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists in Nepal. She is supposed to have perfect hair, eyes, teeth and skin, and have no ...

This is Yunika, and she is the 7-year-old “Goddess” worshipped in Nepal. Draped in traditional costume and decorated in face paint, the young girl is known as a Kumari — a centuries-old tradition that ...

Kathmandu, Sep 15 (efe_epa).Kathmandu, Sep 15 (efe_epa). — As Nepal’s eightday Indra Jatra festival continues this week, dozens of parents brought their young daughters to the Kumari Puja ceremony at ...

Swami Muktinathananda, president of Ramkrishna Math, said that Kumari Puja symbolizes the special presence of the divine Mother within every woman. Due to safety precautions against the pandemic, only ...

Lucknow: Every year, a little girl is selected for Kumari Puja, a ritual performed on the eighth day during durga puja. The girl is considered as incarnation of Goddess Durga. The tradition can be ...

Princess Gauravi Kumari's royal style was already on our fashion radar and now her cover girl persona is making its way into the fashion circuit too. Recently, the Indian royal appeared on the cover ...

Sending out a message of communal harmony, a family in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Sunday worshipped a four-year-old Muslim girl as part of Kumari Puja on 'Maha Ashtami' -- the second ...

A seven-year-old girl in Nepal has been declared a goddess because she has “eyelashes like a cow” and a “voice as clear as a duck”. Now the youngster’s parents have had to leave their jobs because ...

Jamshedpur, Sept. 23: It will be a Kumari Puja with two powerful messages: the ills female foeticide and importance of beti bachao, beti padhao. On Maha Navami (September 29), Jamshedpur-based Vanvasi ...