Kathmandu. With the beginning of the Chhath festival, the rush to sell bamboo chips has increased in the market. A Muslim trader in Balkhu, Kathmandu, is seen transporting the chips used for Chhath.
The ‘Chhitta’ made of bamboo used to transport worship materials and offerings during the Chhath festival carries the message of social harmony and coexistence along with religious faith.
Especially in Madhes, the Dom community has been making items of worship like chittha, dhakiya, nanglo and other worship materials from bamboo. Traders from the Muslim community sell such items in the market, while Hindu devotees use the same items during Chhath Puja to offer Arghya to the setting and rising sun.
Bamboo materials have special importance during the Chhath festival. Fruits, offerings, and worship materials are kept in the ghat and transported to the ghat. Although the Dom community has been making such materials for generations, other communities also participate in the work of delivering such materials to the market and delivering them to the consumers.
Chhath festival is also considered as a festival of social harmony, tolerance and inclusion along with religious faith.
The tradition of people of different castes and communities coming together at the same ghat to worship the Sun gives the message of coexistence rising above caste and religious discrimination.
In this way, a sprinkle of Chhath has connected the skills of the Dom community, the trade of the Muslim community and the faith of the Hindu community into a single cultural tradition.
Photo: Jitendra Jha/Nepal News Bank
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