A small child is worshipped as a living goddess in Nepal. After certain period, she is replaced with another Kumari. The previous kumari will lost the privilege of being goddess and that privilege is given to new Kumaris according to the tradition. What happens to the future of that child is of less concern to those people who blindly follow this tradition. Once a goddess, will have to choose a life of seclusion, poverty, and many psychological illness. Along with it, many superstitions follow Kumari's life till their last breath. Can Nepal move forward without amending Kumari Pratha? Where is the child's right to play, learn, and live a normal life?

 Garnai parcha, sana tina balikalai aandhyaro kotha ma thunera rakhne. Bhokai rakhne, tyo rato rato tika k k lagaune, abir dalne, chi chi uncivilized culture yaar. Learn from westerners, learn to believe western god n culture. Period!

yeha bhukera kehin hudaina...garera dekha ani janatale tero k halat garcha thaha huncha....

Giordano, this thread is not about liking and disliking at all! I hope you understand the freedom of speech. I opened this thread to have a intellectual discussion rather than emotion based liking and disliking. That is what Sajha is here for! If someone doesn't like Teej, let him speak up and lets hear what he has to say about Teej so that we can understand his perspective. Ideas makes our world; better the ideas, better the world will be.

 Thukka timi haru janta hoina, jantu haru ho. Dhunga ko puja garne, shiva ko turi ani parvati ko vagina lai puja garne adharmi uncivilized haru sanga k kura garne?

@ujl,

Ujl,

People are reacting rather than discussing. Wise sages were right: where there is mind, there is stupidity.

Uji Where is my right to call you a [Disallowed String for - use not allowed] for not wearing a dhaka topi and daura surwal everyday ? You are not representing Nepal by wearing what you are wearing therefore are not qualified to be called a Nepali. Yesta waiyat haru lai ke bhanney. Kumari is a culture of Newari people. If you take that away pretty soon there will be no Newari people. Just like people would like to take Thanksgiving away because it degrades the Native Americans. But that is what defines America and American way of life !!! 

civilized huna lai stripper sanga bihe garera stripper ko poi hunu parne ho ??   Westerners le dherai kura sikae .. how to take advantage of innocent people .. how to use their resources and keep them as slaves .. how to attack countries for no reason and then claiming to provide them democracy .. how to attack countries n accuse them of carring  bio chemicals .. sikdai chan sathi Nepal ma pani tei bhaera bomb banaudai innocent manche lai handai chan .. but i hope they dont learn from the westerners ...

You were discussing the sheer symantec of the Nepalitimes article. With that you were trying to use logic on how an article should be written, an arbitrary consensus of writing, or an agreement of minds. 

bathroomcoffee, Stoning women is also a tradition in extremist Islamic society. If we take away this stoning culture from these extremist, we will wipe out these extremist. Idk2013, in academic world, we don't give a crap about Nepali Times or Chicago Times or New York Times!

ujl, but you do give 'crap' to your irrelevant personal opinion formed while sitting in your tiny little pigeon hole world? 

Uji, So is cannibalism in Mauri Culture. Just because some culture's idealism does not fit your norm does not mean they are out-dated or primitive. Yes stoning someone is wrong, eating someone is wrong but you have to be very selective from a moralistic perspective not a cultural barrier. 

लोल शान्ती!

:)

there are at least two perspective to view anything. Your post is bias. You have expressed your own negative perspective toward the tradition. It is very obvious for people who donot agree with you react against you. If you have put forward both the positive and negative aspect and then tell people to comment, you could have get discussion. The other thing you do have right to speech (write , speak), but that right doesnot give you the right to hurt sentiments and faith of any other people. I see any culture, tradition as blood, soul, heart (whatever you like to call) of a nation, so a nation cannot survive without it. Please donot initiate discussion that you donot have proper knowledge about it. It is not Kumari pratha that is hurdle to child right issue and development of nation. Without any doubt, unless a nation address the issue of child right , a nation cannot progress. But the real issue of child right is significant in the rural part of the nation. Why don't you initiate discussion how to address the issue there. I hope you will get discussion not reaction. Please donot post the issue that can bring fracture and negative reaction among people. Jai Nepal! 
Nepal rastra ka sabhai Janta lai chetana bhaya! Rastra bikas sahi soch, jaagar ra ekata bata sambhav cha. Hami tute rastra tutne cha kinaki ethartha ma rastra bhaneko bugol hoina hami janta hau

अनुहारमा  गु घसेर म राम्रो हुँ भन्नेलाई के नै भन्न सकिन्छ र, म त हासनमात्रा सक्छु

Rightly said 'Research', Uji is a hindu fanatic. He doesn't care about child's rights. Unfortunately, fanatics like Uji will now increase because of 'Kamal Thapa'.