"Jaintia"

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15 July 2025

People from the Pnar community move around a Rot themed to stop women harassment as they celebrate an event organized 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.

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15 July 2025

People from the Pnar community move around a Rot-themed Operation Sindoor as they celebrate an event organized 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.

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15 July 2025

People from the Pnar community move around a Rot-themed AI technology as they celebrate an event organized to mark the Behdienkhlam festival in Jowai, India, on July 14, 2025. Behdienkhlam is an 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 decorated bamboo structures called ''rots,'' which are later immersed in a sacred muddy pool known as Ka Aitnar.

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15 July 2025

People from the Pnar community march in a circle as they celebrate an event organized 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.

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6 June 2025

Visitors explore products on display at JINTIAN's booth during EV Trend Korea 2025, the nation's leading electric vehicle exhibition, at Coex in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea, on June 5, 2025.

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8 August 2018

View of Krang Suri waterfall in Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, India on Monday 6 August 2018. To transform the place into a tourists destination the District Administration has initiated steps to construct Chiselled and gravelled footpaths and viewpoints to enable visitors to better appreciate the beauty of the waterfall and its surroundings.

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8 August 2018

View of Krang Suri waterfall in Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, India on Monday 6 August 2018. To transform the place into a tourists destination the District Administration has initiated steps to construct Chiselled and gravelled footpaths and viewpoints to enable visitors to better appreciate the beauty of the waterfall and its surroundings.

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8 August 2018

View of Krang Suri waterfall in Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, India on Monday 6 August 2018. To transform the place into a tourists destination the District Administration has initiated steps to construct Chiselled and gravelled footpaths and viewpoints to enable visitors to better appreciate the beauty of the waterfall and its surroundings.

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8 August 2018

View of Krang Suri waterfall in Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, India on Monday 6 August 2018. To transform the place into a tourists destination the District Administration has initiated steps to construct Chiselled and gravelled footpaths and viewpoints to enable visitors to better appreciate the beauty of the waterfall and its surroundings.

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