Gai Jatra is a Nepali version of Halloween.
This festival is celebrated with a number of events full of humor, satire,
jokes, etc. as it is legally allowed to make jokes about anything and anyone
that day. A number of magazines, TV shows, and theatre plays show comical
plots.
The Historical origin of the festival,
according to evidence, is that after the death of his son, King Pratap Malla
was very worried about his queen who was grief-stricken. So, he announced that
every family who had lost a member would join a procession to showcase the pics
or symbols of dead family members in the form of Cows.
People in the procession are dressed
ridiculously or as ghouls. They make funny faces and jokes so that people would
forget the grief of losing their loved ones.