{"id":239527,"date":"2024-04-26T01:18:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=239527"},"modified":"2024-04-26T01:18:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:48:40","slug":"dpgc-conducts-heritage-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/dpgc-conducts-heritage-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"DPGC conducts heritage walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KAMKI, 25 Apr:<\/strong> The history department of Donyi-Polo Govt College (DPGC) here in West Siang district conducted a heritage walk on the theme &#8216;Oral tradition project: Storytelling for social change&#8217;, at Rupin village in Kamba on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The walk was aimed at understanding the role of storytelling in driving social change, and fosteringintergenerational sharing of knowledge on intangible cultural heritage through storytelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The walk was coordinated by DPGC Assistant Professor Duli Ete and saw the participation of 16 students of mistory major (6th semester).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The walk took the participants to the residence of Tumyir Sora Karga, a local Donyi-Polo priestess-cum-traditional healer, in Rupin village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It featured an engaging storytelling session and insightful discussions between Karga and the students of the department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karga, who is about 80 years of age, shared her knowledge by narrating 11 folklores during the 90-minute session, and commended the college&#8217;s history department for taking a keen interest in oral tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Assistant Professor Ete in his guided tour around the village highlighted the importance of storytelling in preserving cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMKI, 25 Apr: The history department of Donyi-Polo Govt College (DPGC) here in West Siang district conducted a heritage walk on the theme &#8216;Oral tradition project: Storytelling for social change&#8217;, at Rupin village in Kamba on Thursday. The walk was aimed at understanding the role of storytelling in driving social change, and fosteringintergenerational sharing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239527","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\/239527","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=239527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}