People are busy threshing rice in the okhal to make chiura (beaten rice), the staple food of the Newars. During festival time, a temporary wooden fireplace is set up in the yard and rice paddy is soaked in water and roasted in a clay pot over a fire before being threshed. Neighbours help out by taking turns in the threshing.
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