International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day
International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day is held on January 1. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. Help us
On a daily basis most Nepali men wear jeans or cotton pants and shirts. Women dress in Sari's or Kurta's. Young Nepali girls often wear a combination of a Kurta and jeans or leggings.
Topi Diwas is an event celebrated by Nepali people globally on 1 January of English Calendar wearing Dhaka or Bhaad-gaaule Topi as their pride. All Nepali people wear Dhaka topi and Bhaad-gaaule topi on that day.
Nepali Youths have been celebrating the first of January as 'Dhaka Topi Day', as a part of an effort to preserve the traditional Nepali cap. Jagaruk Yuwa Abhiyan Nepal had initiated the act, 2013, as an effort 'to preserve the national identity'.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Dashain on September 23 (is celebrated by the Buddhist, Hindus and Kirats of Nepal and the ethnic Nepali speaking Indian Gorkhas of Darjeeling hills, Sikkim, Dehradun, Kumaun & Gadwal and other North-Eastern states of India and among the Lhotshampa of Bhutan and the Burmese Gurkhas of Myanmar);
Unity Festival in Nepal on January 11 (in honor of Prithvi Narayan, who laid the foundation for the unification of the first part of the country, the king of which he became in 1768);
Maghe Sankranti in Nepal on January 14 (Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period);
Songkran in Thailand, Laos, and Nepal on April 13 (Thai New Year, a New Year festival celebrated April 13-15);
Nepali New Year, or Navabarsha / Vaishak Ek on April 14 (South and Southeast Asian New Year);
Bengali New Year on April 15 (or Poila Boishakh. Sri Lankans begin celebrating their National New Year)