{"id":20126,"date":"2018-02-19T01:12:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=20126"},"modified":"2018-02-19T01:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T19:42:59","slug":"sherdukpens-and-losar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/19\/sherdukpens-and-losar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherdukpens and Losar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is in responds to news article published on Feb 16 &#8220;Losar and Oriah greetings&#8221; in which it was mentioned that CM greeted the people of the state on the occasion of Losar festival of Monpa tribe.<br \/>\nHere I would like to clarify to all the readers of this news paper in particular and to all Arunachalee brothers and sisters in general, that Loser is a New Year celebration which is also celebrated with full enthusiasm like any other by a small community called Sherdukpen residing in small pocket of West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\nThe total population of Sherdukpen tribe is around 4000 -5000, with a total villages of 15 of which Rupa, Shergaon and Jigaon being most populated. If some of you didn&#8217;t know about Sherdukepn tribe, following are some of the most popular Sherduken personalaties in Arunachal which you might have heard or come across- P. K. Thungon was the first CM of Arunachal Pradesh, Y. D. Thongchi ( ret. IAS) was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award 2005, Bhupen hazarika Award 2017, T.N .Thongdok is the present Speaker of state assembly, P. N Thungon is present DC Tirap, Dr.R.D Khrimey is a former CMO General hospital Naharlagun and Dr. R. D Megeji is the first MBBS, MD, DM (Cardiology). We the Sherdukpens have celebrated Losar from time immemorial and will be celebrated in near future too.<br \/>\nI on behalf of all SheRdukpen community wish you all a happy and prosperous Losar festival 2018.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sange Dondu Thungon, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Nirjuli<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, This is in responds to news article published on Feb 16 &#8220;Losar and Oriah greetings&#8221; in which it was mentioned that CM greeted the people of the state on the occasion of Losar festival of Monpa tribe. Here I would like to clarify to all the readers of this news paper in particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126","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=20126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}