A Hindu woman offers prayers on the banks of the Shali River on the outskirts of Kathmandu on January 10, 2020, as Hindu devotees across the country marked the Swasthani Brata Katha festival. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation have started a month-long fast for the Swasthani Brata Katha festival, marked with an auspicious bathing in water bodies in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)
