What you should know
The Ranke Mela has started from Friday at Chitre, the confluence of Dhankuta and Tehrathum districts.
Located at the confluence of Mahalakshmi in Dhankuta and Laligurans municipality in Tehrathum, the fair is one of the oldest in the East.
In the past, the fair used to last for a week, but in recent times, it ends the next day on the 2nd of every month of July. They participate in the fair wearing original costumes of different communities. Similarly, the traditional paddy dance of Limbu caste is performed. Locals said that the Ranke Mela has been held at that place for about two hundred years.
People from eastern Dhankuta, Tehrathum, Sunsari, Morang, Sankhuwasabha, Bhojpur district as well as the neighboring country of Bihar in India also come to fill the fair. Nisha Thapa, a local, said that the products produced by agriculture and small industries are highly sold in the fair. She says that most of the young people participate. Musical performances of various national artists are also held at the fair.
