(11 Dec 2024)
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Kisama Village, Nagaland, India – 10 December 2024
1. Pan left from crowd to indigenous performers
2. Dancers’ feet
3. Dancers
4. Various of spectators and performers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gaurav Sharma, tourist:
“It’s an amazing feeling. I always wanted to come to Hornbill festival, and I got this opportunity on its 25th anniversary. So, it can’t be more special for me and I am just still sinking in this reality that I have finally arrived here. I really loved the tribal performances.”
5. A person preparing a gun for visitors to try shooting
6. Various of tourists firing guns
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Riddhi Bhattachary, tourist:
“I came here on the 7th (of December) and since then I am coming every day and (there are) 18 tribes, different culture, different music, and they are so much colorful and everyone here is in so much joy. The food, the culture, the handicrafts everything is very very much enjoyable.”
8. Various of Indigenous Naga people drumming
9. Hornbill festival venue and bamboo huts
10. Various of masks and traditional artefacts on display
11. Wooden statue of an Indigenous gunman
12. Various of elderly people wearing Indigenous clothing
13.SOUNDBITE (English) Gaurav Sharma, tourist:
“We Indians celebrate the idea of unity in diversity. Though in cities which are slowly moving towards monoculture, we don’t really get to see much diversity. We are moving in the direction of uni-culture or monoculture. If you really want to experience diversity in its full colors you must come to North-East (of India). You will understand how diversity functions, how different tribes lives in harmony yet retain their own cultural identity."
14. Various of visitors taking pictures and dancing
15. Various of Indigenous people watching a performance
STORYLINE:
Men dressed like warriors stabbed the air with spears, reenacting a form of tribal warfare their ancestors practised in centuries past.
Others, wearing tribal costumes, sang and danced, keeping alive customs that have passed down through generations.
These were some of the scenes greeting visitors to the 10-day Hornbill festival in Kohima, capital city of India’s remote Nagaland state that borders Myanmar.
Nagaland, where Allied troops fought against the Japanese during the Second World War, is home to the Nagas, an Indigenous group spread across several northeastern Indian states.
Named after the Indian Hornbill, a large forest bird, the festival is Nagaland’s biggest tourist draw, and seeks to showcase the rich tradition and cultural heritage of the state’s indigenous tribes, each with its distinct festivals and character.
In a largely Hindu country, most Nagas are Christians and they are ethnically distinct from other Indian groups.
Gaurav Sharma, a tourist at the festival, encouraged anyone who has had enough of what he called the "monoculture" of city life to pay a visit to the festival.
"You will understand how diversity functions, how different tribes lives in harmony yet retain their own cultural identity," he said.
AP Video shot by Rishi Lekhi
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