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Special Festival for Women- Teej, a The tradition of Fasting and Entertaining Like last year, the Teej festival has arrived in Nepal with mixed colours and excitement. Though Teej, a special festival of women, has become a celebration of men as well. If you see the dance or listen to the Teej songs, you cannot find a solo voice of a woman, rather a man will accompany them. However, fasting is special for women because men do not accompany this. I remember, it must be about 10/12 years ago, I used to go to invite married sisters. My dad used to plan where to send me and my brothers to invite sisters. In Teej, the earlier night of the main day, the sisters gather at their parents’ home and cook delicious food, known as DAR in Nepali term. Then, on a special day, they remain fasting and dance to the songs for the whole day, meeting their friends who have gone to their husband’s house. Now, I am in Kathmandu, missing all these events. Due to the change in societies and dev

African American Identity Crisis in Battle Royal                                                                                                           Bhanu Bhakta Khatiwada                                                                                                                                                 Kathmandu Model College Ralph Ellison was a twentieth-century African-American novelist and literary critic whose works brought new perception on looking at the black people in contemporary America. In his early days, Ellison was a student of music who gradually entered into the literary world by reading the works of renowned writers like T. S. Eliot. Most of his writings show the identity crisis in the characters which is regarded to be his own autobiographical tone as the novel “Invisible Man”. It won the National Book Award in 1953. His literary career moved smoothly with raising the voice of the African American’s who were the victims of white racist