{"id":156802,"date":"2021-04-26T02:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=156802"},"modified":"2021-04-26T02:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:39:04","slug":"hundreds-pay-last-respects-to-dj-bom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/04\/26\/hundreds-pay-last-respects-to-dj-bom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds pay last respects to DJ Bom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 25:<\/strong> Hundreds of people from all walks of life on Sunday took part in a candlelight vigil here to pay their last respects to Bom Tayeng, the first turntablist from the state, who passed away on 19 April in a car accident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Popularly known as DJ Bom, Tayeng along with one of his friends, Jhon Megu, was travelling towards Namsai when their car met with an accident near Dambuk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Tayeng died on the spot, Megu succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The candlelight vigil at the Waii International Hotel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">was organized by Dream for United Arunachal (DUA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Extending his condolences to the bereaved families of the departed souls, DUA convener Passang Dorjee said that &#8220;in Bom&#8217;s demise, the state has lost a gem of a person who gained popularity among the youths and also represented the state in various platforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said DJ&#8217;ing in the state was very new for everyone when Bom came around and made it popular among the youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Where many people see DJ&#8217;ing as an unconstructive profession, I, on the other hand, have witnessed that it has created huge employment opportunities for those interested in the state,&#8221; Dorjee said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kiogi Gida Gagung, one of the first apprentices of DJ Bom, described the demise of Tayeng as a great loss for the state, especially for those who were following his path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Besides being a good teacher, he was also a good friend and more of a family to me,&#8221; Gagung said, adding that his (Tayeng&#8217;s) dream to represent the state on the global platform remains unfulfilled because of his demise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tayeng had a huge fan following in the state as well in the entire Northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Apr 25: Hundreds of people from all walks of life on Sunday took part in a candlelight vigil here to pay their last respects to Bom Tayeng, the first turntablist from the state, who passed away on 19 April in a car accident. Popularly known as DJ Bom, Tayeng along with one of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}