Tihar is a five-day-long Hindu festival celebrated in Nepal which comes soon after Dashain. It is same as Deepawali celebrated by the hindus in India, Sri Lanka,Bangladesh, Guyana, Surinam, Europe and NortH America but with a regional variation. In Nepal, all Hindu ethnic groups celebrate this festival with their own variation.For the majority Hindus, it is the festival of lights. 95% of the people in Nepal are Hindus and they celebrate tihar ( deepawali or dewali) by worshiping the Hindu goddess Laxmi for all five days. The majority brahmins and the chhetries communities celebrate it for five days. Among the ethnic newari community in the kathmandu valley, it is popularly known as Deepawali or Swanti. The festival is celebrated from Trayodashi of Kartik Krishna to Kartik Shukla Dwitiya every year.
