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JOWAI, INDIA - JULY 14: A flag featuring a hen during celebrate an event organised to mark the Behdienkhlam festival in Jowai, India on July 14, 2025. Behdienkhlam is a vibrant annual festival celebrated by the Pnar (Jaintia) community of Meghalaya, especially in Jowai, to drive away plague and diseases and to pray for a good harvest. Observed in July after the sowing season, it features traditional rituals, offerings to ancestral spirits, and the grand procession of beautifully decorated bamboo structures called rots, which are later immersed in a sacred muddy pool known as Ka Aitnar

Date

Jul 13, 2025

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