as the main kumari in Kathmandu, receive their education through private tutors. Similarly, her limited playmates must learn to respect her. Since her every wish must be granted, they must learn to surrender to her whatever they have that she may want and to defer to her wishes in what games to play or activities to play. List of Kumaris Controversy On 3 July 2007, Sajani Shakya was removed from her position as Kumari of Bhaktapur after visiting the United States to attend the release of the movie Living Goddess at Silverdocs, the American Film Institute/Discovery Channel documentary festival in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. The visit, according to the elders, had tainted her purity. A couple of weeks later, temple authorities at Sajani Shakya's hometown recanted their previous statement and said that she would not be stripped of her title because she was willing to undergo a "cleansing" ceremony to remove any sins she might have committed while traveling. Popular culture The Kumari was featured in the 25 October 2015 episode of the CBS drama series Madam Secretary (season 2, episode 4), titled "Waiting for Taleju". In the episode, fictional US Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord meets with the Kumari in hopes of gaining support for a deal that will help secure US disaster relief funds in the wake of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. In the Korean webtoon series For the Sake of Sita, the female lead character was a Kumari in Nepal. In the novel The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones, the character of the Living Asheth is a little girl worshipped as a goddess in one of the worlds visited by the main character and is based heavily on the Kumari, being the incarnation of a goddess and having to live by strict rules of ritual purity. In the Netflix limited series The Serpent episode 4, Monique sees a Kumari girl from outside of the temple. In the 2016 Indian film Kaashmora, The reincarnation of Rathna Mahadevi (Nayanthara's character), is portrayed as a girl dressed like a Kumari. See also Indrani Devi Kanya Kumari Kaumari Kanwari Matrikas References Shakya, Durga, Kumari House. Retrieved 12 July 2004 from External links Nepal Information: Details about Kumari Devi Bhaktapur Kumari visits US – photos and video of Kumari visiting the US PhotoEssay- Kumari-virgin-goddess 7-year-old girl declared as Royal Kumari of Kathmandu - published at 2016-Sep-09; retrieved at