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Maha Shiva Ratri at Kardo-A Photo feature

By AG | Published: March 8, 2008
The last Thursday being Maha Shiva Ratri, the colleagues at work decided to pay a visit to the Shiva Lingam at Kardo, some 3-4 km away from Hao Polyang (Hapoli) Township and they asked me if I could join them. So, I tagged along with them; not because the devotion in me prodded me-I am Read more ...
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Construction of Lapang and Erection of Babo in Apatani Community-A Photo Feature

By AG | Published: March 1, 2008
Seldom do I visit the countryside except on ceremonial occasions. But when I do, I can’t help myself from being enthralled by its serenity and its unspoiled beauty devoid of any urban interference, where the nature is at it’s rawest best. (Sometimes, I do feel why not get settled in this peaceful environment ?) [The Read more ...
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From Black & White to Technicolor

By AG | Published: January 31, 2008
If you remember, around this time the previous year, I had introduced ‘Apatani Protagonists’ who was supposed to address the issues of Ziro-Hapoli in particular and Arunachal as a whole. But, after making a brief stint, they disappeared. Now they have graduated from B&W to Color and below is the new improved avatar Read more ...
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Murung Ritual Video, circa 1944-45

By AG | Published: January 4, 2008
Digital Himalaya -“A project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region“, has finally uploaded some of the Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf’s Apatani film clips shot during the year 1944-45 from their collection at YouTube. Find the video below and others here (Apatani Shaman & their Read more ...
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It’s Murung Pullo!!

By AG | Published: January 1, 2008
Puzzled? Well, it simply means ‘it’s the month of January’ in Apatani and I’ll dwell about this topic a little later in my post. BTW, how did you bid adieu to the year gone by and welcomed the New Year? For Hapolians, 31st December being marked as an ‘Indigenous Faiths Day’ all over Arunachal and the day Read more ...
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Voice of Apatani

By AG | Published: October 19, 2007
No, it’s not a forum of the Apatani’s as you might think, but a singing talent hunt platform. Seems like the craze that talent hunt shows like Indian Idol 3, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa or the Voice of India generated, has seized the psyche of people of this sleepy little town of Hapoli-Ziro to launch Read more ...
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