HT Correspondent
KHERONI, Jan 17: The Dimasa community of Hazagafer village in West Karbi Anglong has been enthusiastically preparing to celebrate the post harvest festival Haluri Busu. The festival will be held on January 18. For the occasion, a gate welcoming the guests has been built at the entrance of the village with the images of a Dimasa young man and a damsel in traditional dress. The venue is the paddy field in the village.
For the occasion, the villagers volunteered to build a Meji, ethnic houses, rhino effigy, chang-ghar and others with paddy straw and bamboo. A large circular samiana tent has also been installed on the occasion. To maintain cleanliness in the venue many woven bamboo baskets have been installed in and around the place for depositing trash like plastic waste, PET bottles and garbage.
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On Haluri Busu day on January 18, there will be ethnic games, folk dance and songs, ethnic food and drink. There will be feasting and drinking as well.
Village youth and organiser Sujit Sarangsa is for the revival of the festival. While working in the venue he said, “When I was a child I remember celebrating Haluri Busu by the Dimasas. As I grew up I found that it was no longer there. The Dimasas have been celebrating Busu whenever there is Magh Bihu. I decided to revive Haluri Busu and this is the third year we have been doing so.”
He further said, “I came to know that other Dimasa villages have taken up the celebration of Haluri Busu after our example. People are reviving the Dimasa festival that was started by me and my joy has no bounds.”
