An overview to Indra Jatra In September, the eight-day festival IndraJatra falls and is one of the most exciting and celebrated festivals in the Kathmandu Valley city of Newar. This marks the start of a month-long autumn festival. The building starts with the building of an old Hanuman Dhoka Palace wooden pine pole on Basantapur Square. Hundreds of people converge on the Palace Square and the nearby temples for the poles raising ceremony. In a procession through the main streets of Kathmandu, the Kumari cart, the Living Goddess, is taken. Masked dancers known as Lakhay go on the streets with loud drums nearly every evening. The festival commemorates the time when Indra humanly descended from the heavens to find a plant. The shrines and antique palettes around the Durbar square of Kathmandu are aglow every night of IndraJatra with petroleum wicks. There's a sculpture depicting the Ten Earthly Incarnations of Lord Vishnu each night on a platform in front of the temple of the Living Goddess. In open-air at IndraChowk, his temple shows the big picture from AkashBhairab's head. On the afternoon before full Moon, ecstasy girls gain a glimpse of the revered little Newargirl who is devout as Kumari,...