Dyo Pakhu Jatra, a newari carnival, Nepal
Khokana is a small Newari village about 8 kilometers south of Kathmandu. It is mainly famous for the production of rich mustard oil since ancient time in Nepal. It was also the first town in Nepal to be lit with electricity in 1911 AD. Khokana has been nominated to be listed as a Unesco World Heritage, representing a vernacular village and its mustard-oil seed industrial heritage. But today I'll be talking about a different context. Khokana is also famous for Jatra (Newari Festival involving street festival or carnival)
The Carnival is_ Dyo Pakhu Jatra. In this carnival, a group of young men swims in the pond where they attack, bite and tear the goat apart while it is still alive. The Khokana festival has also drawn widespread criticism and ire from animal sympathizers and animal rights activists for its way of animal sacrifice.
This festival started hundreds of years back. In this festival what they do is they throw a goat in a pond and race to win it by bringing the goat back outside the water. whoever takes the goat out of the pond wins and gets to take the goat home. During the race, you can do whatever you want to do with the goat. Basically, the people start to act like an animal.
In recent years, there has_ been criticism about the festival. We are supposed to learn and preserve good aspects of the festival. We need to change those illogical rituals. May be at that time it made sense, getting a goat as a reward was a very big thing. People had to fight for food. But, the time has changed, we no longer are those people. We need to think from a different perspective.
So, during recent years, people no longer fight to win. They do it for recreational purpose only. They don't fight with the goat or each other. They only take a dip with a goat, they don't kill it. They take it out immediately. It is far better than fight like animals but these animals should not be harmed for recreational purpose. We need to learn good things so that we can teach good things to the upcoming generation.
This kind of carnivals should be done but should not harm anyone.
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