\n
MECHUKHA, 5 Dec:<\/strong> Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona on Monday attended the Podi-Barbi celebration in Yorko village near Mechukha in Shi-Yomi district.<\/p>\n Podi-Barbi, a harvest festival, is one of the main festivals of the Adi community, and is celebrated on 5 December every year.<\/p>\n Speaking on the occasion, Sona extended greetings to the gathering and exuded hope that the festival would usher in a bumper harvest, good health and harmony for all.<\/p>\n He expressed appreciation for the people of Yorko village “for maintaining the age-old culture through festival” and encouraged them to continue doing so.<\/p>\n The celebration was marked by colourful cultural programmes and rituals.<\/p>\n Podi-Barbi was celebrated with traditional fervour and gaiety at Gumin Kiin in West Siang HQ Aalo also.<\/p>\n Attending the festival, former minister Doi Ado highlighted the origin of the Topo-Karbo descendants and the culture and folklores attached to it.<\/p>\n “We all should have the zeal to participate in each other’s festival to keep alive the spirit of unity in diversity,” he said.<\/p>\n The invited guests spoke on preservation and promotion of their traditional culture.<\/p>\n Festival organising committee chief advisor Tajen Podo and its vice president Sanjay Chije highlighted the significance and mythological aspects of the festival.<\/p>\n An audio album titled ‘Ngoluge Ding am Sii’ was released by the guests.<\/p>\n Various games and sports competitions were also organised as part of the festival. (Speaker’s PR Cell & DIPR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MECHUKHA, 5 Dec: Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona on Monday attended the Podi-Barbi celebration in Yorko village near Mechukha in Shi-Yomi district. Podi-Barbi, a harvest festival, is one of the main festivals of the Adi community, and is celebrated on 5 December every year. Speaking on the occasion, Sona extended greetings to the gathering and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206404","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\/206404","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=206404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}