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Sattiriya Dance

Sattariya Dance origins from Assam. It is devotional dance centered devoted to Lord krishna and related to Vaishnavism.This dance is nurtured and preserved with great commitments by Sattire i.e. Monastries. This dance is accompanied by a set of musical composition called Borgeets. And  the dance is accredited to 15th century's Bhakti Movement scholar and saint named Mahapurusha Sankardev. The theme of the dance based on Mythological. Now the theme has diversefied a bit from the past. Costumes used for the dance is made of Assamese silk called " Pat Silk". The dance involves in form of Tandava and Lasya. Traditionally this dance is performed by male monks called Bhokots  Initially it was performed by men only but presently performed by both genders as a group form dance.  Recently it is recognised in 2000 by Sangeet Natak Academy. Exponents of the dance form are 1) Bapuram Barbayan Atai, 2) Pradip Chaliha.

India's Boundary-less Village Longwa-One Village but two nations

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Longwa Village – One village, two nations   Longwa village lies in the northernmost part of Mon District of Nagaland state. It is one of the largest villages in Mon district .It is located   42 kms from the main Mon town at the Myanmarese border .This village has traditional large houses made of wood with thatched roof. It is quite an interesting place for sight-seeing for its natural beauty. You would be stunned by knowing that, the boundary between India and Myanmar passes across this village dividing the chief’s house into two- half of Chief’s house in India and his other half of house in Myanmar. Main aborgines of this village is Konyak Tribe. The Konyak tribe holds the largest numbers among the sixteen officially recognized tribes in Nagaland. The Konyak Nagas speak the Tibetan-Myanmarese language in their self-modified version. However, the Nagamese   is also spoken by some of the people, residing in the village.   The Konyak tribe is very famous fo

Introduction to Culture

It has a quite a dramatic change in the scenario in the modern day.It has been observed that we are refraining our culture. Culture is what the ideas, customs, and social behaviour are cultivated by   a particular people or society anywhere in world .All over the world we cultivate the same in any form. The term culture has derived from Anthropology and   the has been recited by many of the anthropologist in their central idea. The Culture has also manifestation over society. The dynamic aspect of the culture has brought the efficiency orientation in the Society. There are many culture from Industry culture to online culture. Going through the theories, we can recall the Petrakis and Kostis cultural divide of the background variables of culture   into two main groups: The first group represents the variables that the "efficiency orientation" of the societies i.e. performance orientation, future orientation, assertiveness, power distance and uncerta