Like many other groups use different calendars, Newars also follow their own lunar calendar, the Nepal Sambat.
Nhu Dan (the Newari New Year) falls during Tihar, the “Festival of Lights”. So, quite a lot of festivity usually marks its celebration. It may not be celebrated by screaming “Happy New Year” at midnight like people do on the New Year’s day of the Gregorian calendar or by visiting stupas and gompas like the Tibetans do during their new year – Lohsar. But it is celebrated with as much fervor, if not more.
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