Festival Of Mixed Feelings

The nation has celebrated the Dashain festival 2024 as the annual monsoon has already departed and the sunny days are reigning the best time of the year. Though the rain causing wind coming from the Bay of Bengal is inactive and absent now, the memory of the untold wrath it showed and widespread destruction and tragedy it brought some 16 days ago is still haunting the Nepali psyche. The downpours and cloudbursts and the resultant calamity two weeks before the complete withdrawal of the monsoon marred the festive atmosphere as a large number of lives were lost and properties worth billions were destroyed. On the eve of the great national festival, vital infrastructures like bridges, roads, highways, power plants and transmission lines were damaged or destroyed.