Over 200 men receive tika from ‘Anjali Didi’ at mass Bhai Tika program

Kathmandu: More than 200 men have received tika from Anjali Maskey, popularly known as ‘Anjali Didi’, in a mass Bhai Tika program.

She organized the program at Kashthamandap, Basantapur in Kathmandu on the occasion of the Bhai Tika celebration, today. Most of those receiving tika from Anjali Didi do not have sisters. On the occasion, Anjali Didi put the seven-color tika on the forehead and garlanded them with the garland of the globe amaranth flower.

She also offered them More than 150 special mandaps prepared at Kashthamandap for the mass Bhai Tika ceremony, according to Anjali Didi. Mandap is the special anointed place for seating the brothers during the Bhai Tika rituals. She shared that she offered the Bhai Tika so that those who do not have sisters will not have to keep their foreheads without tika on this auspicious day commemorating the love and respect between brothers and sisters.

Anjali Didi has been organizing the mass Bhaitika program on the day of Bhai Tika, the last day of the five-day Yamapanchak or Tihar festivities, for the last 25 years.

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