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Behdienkhlam Festival: Jowai (HQ of West Jaintia Hills)
July 25 , 2017
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(June / July, every year)
• Behdienkhlam Festival is the most celebrated Cultural festival among the Pnars.
• Behdienkhlam (chasing away the Demon of Cholera) is celebrated annually in July after the sowing period, the most important dance festival of the Jaintia tribes.
• This festival is also an invocation to God, seeking his blessings for a bumper harvest and disease free life.
• The women however do not participate in the dancing, as they have an important function of offering sacrificial food to the spirits of the forefathers
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