“In Australia, right now we are not doing any farming, so mostly we celebrate by getting together and performing our traditional dance - ‘sakela’,” Bharamsher Rai tells SBS Nepali.

Sakela ritual of the Rai Kirat community has a unique way to celebrate a series of rituals in Baishakh and Mangsir months of the Nepali calendar. In this ritual, ‘Sakelasilli’ (a type of dance step) ...

This week-long celebration, says event organiser Rai ... Nepali group neared the town hall, men began to beat madals – traditional Nepalese hand drums – loudly, and the women began to dance.