Badan Sarma
(The writer is retired Principal, Doomdooma College. He can be reached at badansarma22@gmail.com)
The folk-songs, music, dances, the rituals related to agriculture, the religious customs prevalent in family and socio-economic life of a community or nation – all embody the cultural tradition and heritage of a country or community. These various ever-valued aspects of culture are the genuine semblance of a nation s identity in the world.
The spring-time festival known popularly as Rongali Bihu is all God s grandeur – an illuminating record of the socio-cultural heritage of the people of Assam that has come through tradition down to our present times since time immemorial. Every indigenous aspect of nativity, stuck firmly to the soil of Assam, finds its full expression in this much celebrated festival-solemnly observed amidst gay abandon by people of all description, irrespective of caste or creed, rich or poor. The Spring being the maiden season of the year, her