Girls from the Nepal’s Newar community are married thrice. But not all three times to men. They are first made to marry a bael fruit, also known as wood apple. They are then married to the Sun, before ...

The older she got, the more her relatives asked: “When are you getting married?” “In our culture, a girl of 16, 18, 20 should be married and looking after her husband,” says Moni Mulepati, who lives ...

It was like any traditional Nepali wedding with song and dance, ‘mehendi rasam’, a Newari ‘bhoj’ (feast) and Panchai Baja, (traditional musical band). But it was different from other such dos. Nepal ...