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Sikkim’s Tihar is portrayed as a “festival beyond lights” that honors people, animals and nature, featuring dedicated days of worship for animals that share the landscape with humans and are traditionally associated with Yama, the Hindu god of death. On the second day of Tihar, known as Kukur Tihar, foreign tourists, locals and Nepal Police worshipped dogs, giving the animals VIP treatment.
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For once, the spotlight was not on the diplomats, but on their four-legged companions. Adorned with bright marigold garlands, their foreheads marked with red tika and treated to special delicacies, dogs were the stars of the day as the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi celebrated Kukur Tihar on Sunday…
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Foreign tourists, along with locals and the Nepal Police, on Sunday worshipped dogs on the second day of Tihar, commonly known as "Kukur Tihar", the festival of dogs, giving them VIP treatment.
