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Culture & Custom

Nepalese Festival Ushers Loved Ones to Heaven
Nepalese Festival Ushers Loved Ones to Heaven
Hundreds of young boys, their faces smeared with mascara and painted as cows, trotted barefoot along the streets of Nepal’s capital in August 2012 during the Gai Jatra festival, or the procession of cows.