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The festival is marked by\u00a0<strong>ritual prayers, traditional dances, community feasts,\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0offerings<\/strong>, reinforcing Karbi cultural identity and social cohesion. Celebrated annually in villages across Karbi Anglong and neighbouring areas, Rongker reflects the\u00a0<strong>living traditions of hill societies<\/strong>\u00a0under the Sixth Schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival brings villages to life with rituals, traditional dances, communal feasts, and ceremonial offerings \u2014 beautifully reflecting the cultural richness and spiritual heritage of the Karbi people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Aspects of the Festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\u00a0It marks the beginning of the Karbi New Year, emphasizing community unity, gratitude, and a fresh start.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rituals:<\/strong>\u00a0Elderly male community members perform the rituals, which traditionally exclude women from the designated worship area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Traditions:<\/strong>\u00a0The celebration features traditional music, indigenous games, and folk dances, including\u00a0<em>Hacha Kekan<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nimso Kerung<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Chong Kedam<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rongker Karkli is celebrated as a post-harvest thanksgiving festival, where the Karbi community offers prayers to local deities for protection, prosperity, good harvests, and collective well-being. It is dedicated to\u00a0appeasing local deities\u00a0for community welfare, protection from natural calamities, good harvest, and prosperity. The festival is marked by\u00a0ritual prayers, traditional dances, community feasts,\u00a0and\u00a0offerings, reinforcing Karbi cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":175307,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175306","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175308,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175306\/revisions\/175308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}