{"id":240466,"date":"2024-05-16T01:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=240466"},"modified":"2024-05-16T01:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:50:06","slug":"etor-festival-begins-in-siang-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/etor-festival-begins-in-siang-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Etor festival begins in Siang belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RUKSIN, 15 May:<\/strong> Three-day Etor festival celebration in the Adi villages of East Siang, Siang, Upper Siang and Lower Siang districts began on Wednesday with the hoisting of the festival flag and &#8216;Taku-Tabat,&#8217; followed by discussions on the festival&#8217;s mythology and demonstration of Etor Delong (song- dance).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attending the launching programme of the three-day Etor Delong at Ngorlung village in East Siang, state&#8217;s finance officer Thomas Mongku urged the community members to preserve their ancestral belief and instill a sense of humanity among the youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, former ZPM Ayam Mize lamented that many youths of the community are remaining unaware of their tradition and cultures, which may invite a crisis to the identity of the ethnic tribe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She appealed to the parents to involve their children with festivities and ensure participation of the students in the festival celebration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, Ruksin ZPM Aruni Jamoh, state&#8217;s finance &amp; accounts officer Kalak Tagi, retired DSP (police) Angit Taying, organizing president Ojing Aze also spoke on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports of Etor festival celebration have also been received from Pasighat, Mebo, Sile-Oyan, Bilat areas under East Siang district and parts of Siang, Upper Siang and Lower Siang districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent RUKSIN, 15 May: Three-day Etor festival celebration in the Adi villages of East Siang, Siang, Upper Siang and Lower Siang districts began on Wednesday with the hoisting of the festival flag and &#8216;Taku-Tabat,&#8217; followed by discussions on the festival&#8217;s mythology and demonstration of Etor Delong (song- dance). Attending the launching programme of the three-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240466","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\/240466","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=240466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}