Society / Arunachal

DIBRUGARH, March 19 — A unique festival of the Monpa community, the Kora festival, will be held at Zemithang from March 29 for five days. Kora is an important festival of the community, next only to the Lossar festival, in significance. The border town of Zemithang, near the Indo-China border, has been its traditional venue. This year, the Tawang district administration has also arranged for a handloom expo at Zomithang, to coincide with the festivities.

Since the past few years, the Arunachal Pradesh Government has been doing all it can to promote tourism in the State. Tawang is one of the...

Jairampur (Arunachal Pradesh), Feb. 18: They answered the call of duty and died fighting but it has taken a long time for someone to answer their silent plea for a little respect.

The graves of several valiant soldiers who took on the imperial Japanese army during World War II lie unattended at a cemetery six kilometres from this sleepy town. One of these graves is of Hsiao Chu Ching, a company commander of 2nd battalion of the 10th regiment, Indian Engineers of Chinese Army stationed in India, who died in 1943.

Though belatedly, the New Delhi-based Indo-Taipei Cultural Exchange Centre has...

LEKHAPANI, Feb 15 ? They were known to be a ferocious community, which never subjugated themselves before anybody else. Save the British, who enticed them with opium trading licences. But over the decades, the Singpho community has distanced itself from violence, took to Buddhism, and today is one of the most docile people to be found anywhere in the world. Their warmth is especially experienced at the annual Shapawng Yawng Manau Poi festivities where they pay obeisance to their forefathers and dance around the Shadung in graceful, semi-military formations.

This year?s festivities were held...

Margherita, Jan. 27: Dancing in ?Singpholand?, at large in Upper Assam. This is precisely what many visitors from Canada, China and Southeast Asia are looking forward to next month.

They will give a headstart to the annual festival of the Singphos, beginning here on February 13. ?People from China, Thailand, Myanmar and South Asian countries will be among the revellers,? said Rajesh Singpho, member of the organising committee of the Shapawan Yawng Manau Poi, the ?national festival? of the tribe.

?A group of tourists from Canada have contacted us, expressing their desire to be here during the...

DIYUN (Changlang) Jan 20 : Arunachal?s minister for Information & Public Relations C.C. Singpho has inaugurated a Mahabodhi School at Diyun in Changlang district on January 14 last under the aegis of the Mahabodhi Society Bangalore. C.C. Singpho described the opening of the school as a historic occasion for the people of Diyun area for the school will not only impart general education but also spiritual education based on Buddhism. The Minister also donated 28 acres of land for permanent construction of the school campus. The school initially started upto class III will be upgrated in...

ITANAGAR, Jan 17 ? Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi formally launched a research project titled ?Tribal Transitions? and called upon researchers to contribute to current debate about the place of tribal cultures in the modern world, reports PTI. It is a collaborative project between the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the British Museum, Arunachal University, the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, the Centre for Cultural Research and Documentation (CCRD) here and the British Council in New Delhi.

The project is destined for five years and would be funded by the...

ITANAGAR, Jan 16 ? Approximately 30,000 (thirty thousand) of pilgrims braving the chilly cold took a holy dip at the famous Parashuram Kund in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh on the eve of ??Paush Makar Sankranti.?? Official sources from Tezu, the district headquarter of Lohit told The Assam Tribune over phone Tuesday that thousands of pilgrims, sadhus, old men-women and children from different parts of the country including pilgrims from neighbouring Nepal and Bhutan queued up in the early morning to take holy dip with a belief that a dip in the kund is enough to exonerated oneself from...

New Delhi, Jan. 15: The famed artisans and weavers of Arunachal Pradesh are fast losing their silken touch as the “lopsided” policy of the state government is pushing the handicrafts and handloom industry to the brink of a shutdown. Several projects are under way in the state for the development of these two sectors. But they are “suffering” from some deficiency or the other and not producing the “desired impact”, sources in the Union textiles ministry said.

According to state textile minister T.G. Rimpoche, “The state is not yet ready for commercial production of handicrafts as the schemes...

ITANAGAR, Dec 19 — Arunachal Pradesh education minister Takam Sanjoy had assured the handicapped persons of the state that the government would do its best to look after their welfare and also try to implement the Disability Act 1995 enacted by the Government of India, reports PTI. Sanjoy said this while speaking at a function here Tuesday in connection with World Disabled Day celebration which was sponsored by Department of Social Welfare, Women and Child Development and jointly organised by All-Arunachal Pradesh Handicapped Welfare Society (AAPHWS), Tassar Mangha Charitable Society and Donyi...

ITANAGAR, July 7 ? The Dree festival of Apatani tribe began with a two-day programme all over Arunachal Pradesh on Friday. Like previous years, the Dree festival as also centrally celebrated this year at Ziro which was graced by Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi as the chief guest. The Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of Assam, Captain Robin Bordoloi also participated in the central Dree Festival celebration as the guest of honour. This was stated in a PIB release.

Addressing the gathering as the chief guest, Mithi said that the Apatanis have a rich...