{"id":276072,"date":"2026-01-06T00:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276072"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:50:41","slug":"somin-nyormin-day-of-si-donyi-hilo-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/somin-nyormin-day-of-si-donyi-hilo-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Somin Nyormin&#8217; day of Si-Donyi Hilo celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAPORIJO, 5 Jan:<\/strong> The &#8216;Somin Nyormin&#8217; day of the central Si-Donyi Hilo was celebrated here in Upper Subansiri district on Monday, during which members of the Tagin community exchanged happiness, laughter, and festive greetings with each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8216;Somin Nyormin&#8217; day is celebrated on the second day, while the main celebration will be held on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The members of the community sang the Si-Donyi Hilo anthem together, marking the beginning of the celebration in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Punung display by Atu Si-Hoyi Acham was one of the main attractions of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seventeen punung troupes are participating in the festival here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Central Si-Donyi Hilo celebration committee chairman Pakding Kodak highlighted the significance of the festival, highlighting the meaning of Si-Donyi Hilo, where si means the Earth, donyi means the sun, and hilo means &#8220;power of the ritual chanting,&#8221; former Si-Donyi Hilo celebration committee chairman Dosh Dasi Tamin said in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kodak appealed to the Tagin Cultural Society (TCS) to &#8220;rectify or reconsider the formation of punung troupes on clan basis,&#8221; and TCS president Larji Rigia assured to look into it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prizes to the winners of various cultural and literary competitions were distributed on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local MLA Taniya Soki, ADC Biaro Sorum, and retired ADC Taga Ekke, among others, attended the celebration on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAPORIJO, 5 Jan: The &#8216;Somin Nyormin&#8217; day of the central Si-Donyi Hilo was celebrated here in Upper Subansiri district on Monday, during which members of the Tagin community exchanged happiness, laughter, and festive greetings with each other. The &#8216;Somin Nyormin&#8217; day is celebrated on the second day, while the main celebration will be held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276072","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\/276072","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=276072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}