Dashain kite flying

At 11:53am Nepal Standard Time on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, something extraordinary will happen in every corner of the country simultaneously. In a village in Solukhumbu, an 82-year-old grandmother will press her thumb into a mixture of red vermilion, rice, and yoghurt and mark the foreheads of her grandchildren one by one. In a courtyard in Patan, a family dressed…