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Baakhan Nyane Waa together with the Kathmandu metropolitan city uses the Indra Jatra map as a guiding tool. Every year when Indra Jatra starts, Alina Kumari Tamrakar finds herself gearing up towards revelling for all eight days of the vibrant festival. Having been brought up very closely in the culture, she today knows what is going on and enjoys every bit of the festival, locally known as Yenya (meaning the festival of Kathmandu).  But sitting in a cafe, some five years ago, Tamrakar was unaware of what she did not know about the festival.  “It was 2017 and I was working on some post-reconstruction work and in the documentation of the intangible heritage. I was with Alok [Siddhi Tuladhar] dai and Bhusan Shilpakar dai. Bhusan dai, who was from Patan, turned to me and asked what exactly happened during Yenya. He admitted that, amidst all the excitement, he was not sure where each event was taking place,” says Tamrakar. The question got her thinking that, despite being gr...