During Dashain, a significant festival in Nepal, family members receive "tika" (a mixture of yogurt, rice, and vermilion) on their foreheads along with blessings from elders. The Sanskrit hymn ...

Last weekend the Nepalese community at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands and their invited guests, celebrated Dashain ... covered with rice tika, wearing new clothes.

Far from home for the 15-day Dashain festival — the most important celebration ... were having a chat because they were putting the tika [symbolic red dot on the forehead] on, which is a ...