Bhutanese Nepalis held Greater Columbus' largest-ever Tihar celebration on Saturday.
Kaushila Rizal, a grandmother of 17, wore a wide smile as she surveyed the scene at Civic Park in Reynoldsburg.
Tihar is an important holiday for the Bhutanese Nepali community in Greater Columbus, who number around 30,000, according to the nonprofit Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio. On Saturday, the Reynoldsburg City Council and various Bhutanese-Nepali businesses sponsored the city's first-ever Diwali-Tihar Festival, with various folk dances, food stalls and children’s activities.
In addition to lighting their homes with lamps — as is done throughout South Asia — Bhutanese Nepalis also celebrate Tihar by worshiping crows, dogs, and cows. At the event on Saturday, a Reynoldsburg police department dog named “Bahadur” was garlanded with marigold flowers, as is traditional.
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