Solung festival celebrated

ITANAGAR, September 2: Solung, a tribal festival of the Adi community, was celebrated throughout Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday with traditional gaiety and fervour. Besides the traditional ponung dances, rituals and sacrifices to invoke Ponyi Pol, the festival was marked by community feast, games and sports. Addressing the gathering on the occasion of the festival here, the Arunachal University vice-chancellor, KK Dwivedi, said celebration of the festival promotes feeling of oneness among the people. Dwivedi said efforts were on to establish a cultural complex at the lone university of the state for further research and documentation of tribal culture and heritage.