Gai Jatra in Australia

Gai Jatra 2027 is August 18 — the Newari festival honouring loved ones lost. Cow processions, satire tradition and observance in Australia.

Gai Jatra — गाईजात्रा, Saparu in Nepal Bhasa — falls the day after Janai Purnima and is the Newari festival of remembrance. Families who lost a member in the past year lead a cow — or a child dressed as one — through the streets of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan, guiding the departed soul's journey.

It is a festival that holds grief and laughter together: alongside the processions, Gai Jatra is Nepal's traditional day of satire, when comedians and newspapers roast the year's follies. For Newar families in Australia, the day is marked quietly — remembrance, khaja and community.

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