A woman displaced by the recent flood sleeps inside a classroom of Shree Sarsawati Higher Secondary School at Bhalohiya village in Rautahat, Nepal, July 17, 2019. (Photo by Riwaj Rai/Reuters)





A young Nepali Hindu devotee takes a holy bath as he takes part in a ritual during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu on August 15, 2019. The Janai Purnima Festival is known as the Sacred Thread Festival during which Hindu men, especially the Brahmans and Chettris, perform their annual changing of Janai, a yellow cotton string worn across the chest or tied around the wrist of the right hand. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A Nepali child (C) dressed in a traditional cow costume poses with others as they take part in a procession for the Gai Jatra cow festival in Kathmandu on August 16, 2019. The annual Gai Jatra festival, which dates back to the 17th century, pays respects to those who have died in the past year, with families staging colourful processions through town centres. These are traditionally led by a cow or by young men dressed with headgear depicting a cow. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A masked dancer performs traditional dance during a Newari festival in Lalitpur, Nepal on August 1, 2019. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A participant waits to take part in a gay pride parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, August 16, 2019. Hundreds of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders paraded through Nepal's capital Friday to demand an end to discrimination against sexual minorities. Nepal is considered a conservative nation, most of its people are Hindu, and many still follow traditional beliefs. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Participants during the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) pride parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, 16 August 2019. Thousands of LGBT activists and members of Blue Diamond society, LGBT rights organization, participated in the parade demanding equal rights. (Photo by Hemanta Shrestha/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A member of Nepalese army carrying a child walks along the flooded colony in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 12, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A member of bomb disposal team is seen through the protective gear as he works to defuse an improvised explosive devise in Lalitpur, Nepal on May 27, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Participants hold up placards while taking part in a Gay Pride parade to mark pride month in Kathmandu, Nepal, June 29, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Participants play in the mud as they plant rice samplings during National Paddy Day, also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in Dhading, Nepal, June 30, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A boy swims on a pond covered with algae in Bhaktapur, Nepal, July 9, 2019. (Photo by Monika Deupala/Reuters)





Members of Nepalese army walk along the flooded colony in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 12, 2019. Floods have forced more than four million people from their homes across India, Nepal and Bangladesh and killed more than 100 people as torrential rains in the initial days of monsoons wreaked havoc. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A girl sits next to the effigy of the demon Ghantakarna, before it is burnt to symbolize the destruction of evil and belief to drive evil spirits and ghost, during the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal, July 30, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





An effigy of demon Ghantakarna is burnt to symbolize the destruction of evil and belief to drive evil spirits and ghost, during the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal, July 30, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





People observe the Nil Barahi mask dance festival, an annual event during which dancers perform while posing as various deities that people worship to seek blessings, in Bode, Nepal on August 20, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Children look for plastic bottles at the polluted Bagmati River in Kathmandu March 22, 2013. This year's theme for World Water Day, which falls on March 22, is “Water Cooperation” and is in line with the celebration of the International Year of Water Cooperation. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A police personnel runs holding a police line tape to secure an area near the plane during an emergency drill simulating a bomb attack at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 28, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A Nepali youth plays in a rice paddy field during National Paddy Day at Pokhara, some 200 kms west of Kathmandu on June 30, 2019.The farmers are celebrating National Paddy Day on “Asar 15” of the Nepali calendar as the annual rice planting season begins. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A farmer wearing traditional rain protection “ghoom” walks in a paddy field during a monsoon rainfall in Nuwakot village, Nepal, 10 July 2019. Paddy plantation in Nepal has been severely affected across the country this year owing to lack of adequate rainfall. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, paddy plantation was completed across over 23 per cent of arable land in the country till 8 July. Nepal’s 60 percent agriculture industry relies on monsoon rain while 40 percent is carried out through irrigation. Agriculture gives major contribution in the country's GDP. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Nepali Sherpa women dressed in traditional attire pose for picture during the 12th International Everest Day in Kathmandu on May 29, 2019. International Everest (Sagarmatha) Day to mark the 66th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in Nepal. On 29 May 1953 New Zealand Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach Everest’s 8,848 metre (29,029 foot) summit. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A relative combs the hairs of Nepal's Living Goddess, also called the “Kumari” (C), at her house in Patan in the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 9, 2019. The Kumari, considered a living goddess, attends festivities on the last day of the Rato Machindranath chariot festival, also known as Bhoto Jatra. The event is celebrated every year to herald good monsoon rains for increased rice harvest, prosperity and good luck and it is one of the main festivals observed by both the Buddhist and Hindu communities of Kathmandu. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Nepalese Hindu pilgrims, also known as Bolboms, engage in the worship of Shiva, the god of creation and destruction, in Sundarijal, 15 km from Kathmandu, Nepal, 29 July 2019. Thousands of Bolbom devotees form across the country travel barefoot to the northern holy city Sundarijal, 16 km from the capital, where they collect water, claimed to be holy. The water is stored in two pots on colorful wooden sticks, which are not allowed to be placed on the ground until end of the procession. Bolboms believe that all their sins and mistakes committed in life will be forgiven by taking part in this ceremony. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Hindu Sadhu (holy man) sits on the premises of the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 15, 2019. Dozens of sadhus live around the temple devoting their life to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)