From our archives: ‘Kaliyugko Shivaratri’

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A holy man receives a plastic cup to fill tea offered by a devotee at the Pashupatinath Hindu temple during the Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday, 26 February 2025. Source: AP / Niranjan Shrestha/AP

What‘s your take on Shivaratri? Here’s Nepali poet Prem Oli‘s modern-day view on the festival, titled ‘Kaliyugko Shivaratri’. This is an edited version of the original “Chatyang Gita” segment by Chatyang Master Krishna Murari Gautam. Its first broadcast on SBS Nepali was on Saturday, 12 March 2016.


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