Dixya Poudel
After the cold, dreary days of winter, the weather is starting to become pleasant as spring season nears. Particularly in Nepal, spring season is heralded with Basanta Panchami also known as Saraswati Puja. Basanta translates to spring in Nepali and Basanta Panchami falls on the month of Magh. The festival holds religious, cultural and traditional significance and like each year, this year too devotees throughout the nation offered prayers to the deities on the occasion of Basanta Panchami.
Nepal sees six major seasons that fall one after the other throughout the year. These seasons are basanta (spring), grishma (summer), barsha (monsoon), sharad (autumn), hemanta (pre-winter) and sishir (winter). Basanta (spring)…
