FILM : "Wangla - A Garo Festival" Documentary Film screening at IGNCA, No. 3, Rajendra Prasad Road > 5:30pm on 8th January 2016

Time : 5:30 pm Add to Calendar 08/01/2016 17:30 08/01/2016 18:30 Asia/Kolkata FILM : "Wangla - A Garo Festival" Documentary Film screening Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/01/film-wangla-garo-festival-film.html Auditorium, Media Centre, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), No. 3, Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY


Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Auditorium, Media Centre, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), No. 3, Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : "Wangla - A Garo Festival" Film screening.

The lineage of the Garo people of Western Meghalaya goes back to Tibet. The Garo hills are interspersed with patches of low-lying plains bordering Assam and Bangladesh. The life of Garos revolves around the Sun God, who rules their Jhum or shifting cultivation, and envelops the dynamics of their life ways. The Wangla festival of the Garos is the time for celebrating the bounty and well being, bestowed by Sun God. It is the time to rejoice; time to choose the bride and the Groom; and the time for young persons to mingle freely. The films place the life and times of Garos in the background of their traditional philosophy and belief systems, and provides a mirror to the Garo mindscape.

Director: Bappa Ray 

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