{"id":271488,"date":"2025-09-29T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=271488"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:25:17","slug":"laptang-queen-chasam-lowang-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/laptang-queen-chasam-lowang-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptang queen Chasam Lowang passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHONSA, 28 Sep:<\/strong> Chasam Lowang, the revered wangcha (queen) of Old Laptang village in Tirap district passed away at the age of 79 after a prolonged illness at her residence on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is survived by two sons and one daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wife of late Dingwang Lowang, she was born on 1 January, 1946, in Kaimai village to late Tejam Tongluk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was a trailblazer among Kaimai women, known for adopting the saree\/mekhela in the 1950s and 1960s, and for her proficiency in Assamese, a remarkable feat during her time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Her marriage to the educated chief, Dingwang Lowang, was a union of elegance and leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chasam Lowang was celebrated for her strength, honesty, and queenly demeanor. She will be fondly remembered by both the Kaimai and Laptang communities as a trendsetter and a woman of unwavering integrity. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHONSA, 28 Sep: Chasam Lowang, the revered wangcha (queen) of Old Laptang village in Tirap district passed away at the age of 79 after a prolonged illness at her residence on Saturday. She is survived by two sons and one daughter. Wife of late Dingwang Lowang, she was born on 1 January, 1946, in Kaimai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271488","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\/271488","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=271488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}