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60. Siliguri

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Our arrival in Siliguri could not have been timed worse. Today is Ram Navami, the Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Rama. The entire city is coloured orange, from large and small flags, from garlands across the roads, from people’s dresses. Dutch football supporters could learn a thing or two. But from what [...]
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59. Dibrugarh

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The day we leave Nagaland, there is another festival, in Mon, but we have to move on. Even we don’t have all the time of the world. As instructed, we check out with the Mon police, most of whom are obviously also at the festival, and we drive out of the mountains to the plains [...]
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58. the head hunters

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One of the issues I have not yet discussed in great detail, is the head hunting history of the Naga, and especially of the Konyaks, who were apparently the fiercest, and who continued longest, probably well into the 1960s. Our own guide is pretty useless, and not readily forthcoming with information, but we overhear the [...]
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more portraits

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Just like in Longwa, the village of Sheanghah Chingnyu also invites for some great photographs of the locals. Men, in traditional dress, complete with hats and wild pig teeth, or not. The women, contenders in the spinning competition. And the chief, with horns through his earlobes. Note that the tattooed former head hunters have been [...]
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the games

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It is not the best of sports photography, but I think the games at the Aolyang Festival in Sheanghah Chingnyu do warrant some extra attention. Walking on stilts, they do that at the annual festival in our Dutch village, too, but running, no way! And the inventors of the pole climbing competition, how mean can [...]
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57. Sheanghah Chingnyu

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As the festival in Longwa is finished, at least the public part of it – the villagers themselves party another three days, but privately, in families and clans – we spend the next day in another village, Sheanghah Chingnyu, where Aolyang is celebrated a day later. And whilst we anticipated on similar delays staring up [...]
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the Longwa portraits

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The Aolyang Festival in Longwa is not a festival for tourists, although there were a few, both international and from other parts of India. The people who celebrate do that for themselves, and they dress up in their traditional cloths, also for themselves, and for their community. Notwithstanding, they are proud enough to not just [...]
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the Longwa kids

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The Aolyang Festival in Longwa is for everybody, and not just the grown-ups. Those too old to participate will still turn up and watch, from the sidelines. But what is more, almost nobody seems too young to participate. Lots of children, especially among the boys, have dressed up in traditional cloths, complete with paraphernalia. And [...]
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56. the Aolyang festival

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The annual Aolyang festival of the Konyak tribe in Longwa celebrates the start of a new year, linked to the growing season. It is a six-day festival, for which the people dress up in traditional gear. The men wear a loin cloth – and a sports short underneath, these days, or simply trousers -,  and [...]
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55. Longwa

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Longwa is a curious village. At some 1500 m altitude, it is right at the border with Myanmar; in fact, the king of Longwa has jurisdiction over some villages in India, but also over Konyak people living just across the border in Myanmar. Which is why the king’s palace is half in India, and half [...]
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