Kathmandu. Today, the major festival of Hindus, Maha Shivaratri, is being celebrated across the country with reverence, devotion, and joy. This festival, observed on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month of Falgun, is considered a day extremely dear to Lord Shiva.This festival, celebrated to commemorate the night of Lord Shiva's manifestation according to the Puranas, is described as one of the four major sacred nights: Kalratri, Moharatri, Sukharatri, and Shivaratri. This day is especially considered the day that brings forth religion into the hearts of beings living a sorrowful, difficult life. See the Splendor Seen in...