A student with painted face takes part in the Global Climate Strike in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 27, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A worker fumigates a resident area to prevent the spread of the dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 5, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A local resident covers her faces as worker fumigates residential area to kill mosquitos in Kathmandu, Nepal, 05 September 2019. According to Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, at least 60 patients with dengue virus have been confirmed in Kathmandu. The dengue outbreak in Kathmandu is quite unusual and usually occurs in low belt eastern part of Nepal. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Nepali traditional masked “Lakhe” dancer receives “Samyabaji” on the fifth day of the "Indra Jatra" festival in Kathmandu on September 15, 2019. Nepal's week-long festival celebrates “Indra”, the king of gods and the god of rains. Every September, the living goddess is carried on a palanquin in a religious procession through parts of the Nepalese capital. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Former Living Goddess Kumari Matina Shakya looks through the window of a Kumari House during the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal September 13, 2019. The annual festival, named after Indra, the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, rejoicing, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu Valley to mark the end of monsoon season. Indra, the living goddess Kumari and other deities are worshipped during the festival. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Nepalese devotees carry a dancer wearing a mask of a deity during Shikali festival in Khokana, outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, October 4, 2019. The festival is celebrated by the Newar Community from Khokana, during which dancers wear masks of various deities, perform dances, and sacrifice animals in the hopes of getting the blessing of deities. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A man carries goods on his way to a temple during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal, October 4, 2019. (Photo by Monika Deupala/Reuters)





Nepali bystanders watch as other devotees splash water on a buffalo to be sacrificed during the ninth day of the Hindu Dashain Festival in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on October 7, 2019. Dashain is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepali calendar and celebrates the triumph of good over evil. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A girl waits for customers to sell grains to feed pigeons at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal on August 22, 2019. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A young devotee with lit oil lamp on his head performs religious ritual while offering prayer to God Narayan a day before Krishna Janmashtami, or the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Bhaktapur, Nepal on August 22, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





An activist holding a placard that reads “where is socialism for the road”, stands atop of a vehicle in front of the marked trees which will be cut down for road expansion during a protest against the unplanned urbanization in Kathmandu, Nepal August 29, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Nepali young artists with painted face look out from a window before performing in a play based on Hindu mythology at Basantapur Durbar Square on the second to last day of the “Indra Jatra” Hindu festival in Kathmandu on September 16, 2019. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A woman sweeps the premises of Nyatapola Temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal on September 20, 2019. (Photo by Monika Deupala/Reuters)





A devotee lies covered with oil lamps placed by other devotees while offering prayers as part of a ritual during “Dashain”, a Hindu religious festival, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, October 8, 2019. (Photo by Monika Deupala/Reuters)





Nepalese women struggle to drink homemade alcohol from a “statue” of Swet Bhairab in celebration of Indrajatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, September 15, 2019. The eight-day festival is to mark the end of the monsoon. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Media)





A woman struggles to drink homemade alcohol poured from the mouth of an idol of “Swet Bhairab” during the annual Indra Jatra festival to worship Indra, Kumari and other deities and to mark the end of monsoon season in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 15, 2019. (Photo by Monika Deupala/Reuters)





Light illuminates a woman as she offers prayers holding a lamp at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 2, 2019. The three-day festival, commemorating the union of Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees take part in Matka Breaking Festival during Krishna Janmasthami in Kathmandu, Nepal, August 23, 2019. Krishna Janmashtami is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. (Photo by Sulav Shrestha/Xinhua News Agency)





A Nepalese woman stands under a waterfall as people gather to enjoy the weekend at Muhanpokhari, Bhaktapur, Nepal, 31 August 2019. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Masked dancers perform a traditional mask dance during the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 11, 2019. The annual festival, named after Indra, the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, rejoicing, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu Valley to mark the end of monsoon season. Indra, the living goddess Kumari and other deities are worshipped during the festival. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A Nepali child revered as a living goddess or Kumari, is carried in a chariot during a procession on the last day of the Indra Jatra festival at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on September 17, 2019. The eight-day festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and god of rains. During this festival, Kumari, the living goddess, is also taken around parts of the capital city in a religious procession. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Women of the non-profit organization Maiti Nepal, a Rehabilitation and Orphanage home for HIV affected and trafficking women and children, play during a function to celebrate Teej festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, 29 August 2019. Maiti Nepal organized the event to help HIV positive and trafficking women and children and educate about the festival. The Teej festival is the biggest festival for Nepalese Hindu women. During the festival married women take a fast for the long and prosperous life of their husbands and unmarried women celebrate to get a good one by fasting for a day. The Teej festival will be celebrated on 02 September. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)