The most significant festival of the Tharu community, marking the New Year. It is a time for feasting on pork, fish, rice beer (jand), and ghonghi (snails). Families gather, perform traditional dances, and make important social decisions like selecting leaders (Bhalmansa).

A week-long celebration of colors, music, and dance. Unique to the Tharu is the use of madal and dholak instruments, and the festival has more ritual songs and communal dancing than elsewhere in Nepal.

Buddha Jayanti holds profound significance in Nepal, the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, in Lumbini. Celebrated with reverence across the nation, and particularly in districts like Nawalpur, it commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and Parinirvana of the Buddha. For Nepalese, this day is a source of national pride and a time for deep spiritual reflection, rooted in the very land where Buddhism originated.