BBAU Hosts First Northeast Cultural Fest in Lucknow | 1100+ Participants | NTNews

Added: 2026-05-09

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[00:13:41]Then we have Misoram.

[00:13:44]14 tribes.

[00:13:46]They speak 25 dialects.

[00:13:52]Meghala 17 tribes they speak 30 dialects.

[00:14:02]Tripura we have two major groups and 19 tribals speaking 35 dialects.

[00:14:11]Sikkim, you have seven major groups speaking 15 dialects.

[00:14:18]And besides the major groups whose languages have been derived from Indo-arian and ostro asiatic roots, the rest of all our languages have been derived from the Tibetto Burmese roots under the bigger umbrella Sino Tibetan language.

[00:14:42]That is the nutshell of our state. There are more than 350 dialects.

[00:14:52]Why I'm mentioning is this? In many parts of the northeast, supposing you master one dialect in one village and you visit the next village, the next village will not understand your dialect.

[00:15:07]So more than 350 dialects plus sub dialects and across our state are northeastern states there are more than 150 dance forms.

[00:15:21]Some of them you will see here. If you want to see more of the dance forms you got to come to the northeast.

[00:15:29]Plus we have more than 500 distinct unique uh patterns and handiccrafts.

[00:15:39]It will take more than a lifetime to learn the languages of the northeast and to learn all the dance forms and the handiccrafts and to visit every places.

[00:15:51]So what do we celebrate today friends?

[00:15:55]cultural diversity, traditions, heritage.

[00:16:03]People said like this, culture is the complete way of life while tradition is the subset of culture which are specific beliefs, practices and customs handed down through generations.

[00:16:26]We can celebrate friends. We can celebrate our variety only if our diversity promotes peace and harmony in society and in a nation. We cannot celebrate violence and disunityity.

[00:16:45]Cultural things are the good stuffs that we inherit.

[00:16:51]Like in the northeast we have the magnificent hand loom styles, the amazing folk songs and even the food like your uh the iomba, you have the pa, you have jad, you have tukpa, you have momo, you have shinju and so on.

[00:17:19]But culture heritage is not merely what we inherit but what we choose to preserve and pass forward. That is the cultural heritage.

[00:17:35]Some people take pride in saying this wine is our culture and some other people take pride in saying this tobacco is our culture. My dear friends, that is not culture.

[00:17:52]That is wise. And any vices whether physical or moral are not cultural richness.

[00:18:03]And anything any practices you know that does not uplift us and that promotes intoxication that promotes moral corruption, violence. They cannot be cultural heritage.

[00:18:20]They are the burdens we must shed.

[00:18:25]They are the things we have to discard.

[00:18:28]This I'm telling for our northeast friends as well as the rest of the Indian students.

[00:18:36]The Nagas for instance cannot go on head hunting today.

[00:18:43]My wife belongs to the she's a psychologist. She belongs to the head hunting community.

[00:18:52]Head hunting and head collection was part of the traditional culture of the Nagas during war time to preserve themselves but those are done away with.

[00:19:03]Today the Nagas they are hunting for the hearts of India not the heads.

[00:19:11]The Arunachalis and even the Meghalas, they are the best among the best archers in India and they use the deadliest weapon arrows during wartime.

[00:19:27]But can you use that? No. Those are done away with. Now today they pierce the hearts of people with their hospitality and their goodness not the arrows.

[00:19:44][applause] So true cultural heritage does not lie only in the food or the attires or the clothing that we wear or not wear. In fact, most of our ancestors, they wore very less clothes. But does that mean to celebrate our culture, we have to wear less clothes?

[00:20:08]You see friends, culture is not a museum exhibit.

[00:20:12]It is a living breathing thing like a garden.

[00:20:17]We have to grow new plants. We have to weed out the weeds and we have to sew new seeds. That's how gardens they try.

[00:20:27]Our ancestors they adopted they adapted they uh innovated [clears throat] and they changed with the times the the changing times that's how we have survived. Had our ancestors said we shall never make a change in our culture then we would be still inside the caves arguing about whether we should use electricity because it is against our culture.

[00:20:57]So more than our colorful attires and our clothes, our heritage is found in the good and noble practices that have sustained our communities for generations.

[00:21:11]Our cultural heritage is found in the respect we have for elders.

[00:21:20]In the hospitality that we extend to strangers, in the dances and the songs that we sing together to celebrate harvest and community.

[00:21:32]in the ethical conduct we maintain among our fellow men and in our respect and reverence for nature.

[00:21:42]Our ancestors friends were mostly hunters and fishermen but we never had in our minds to destroy the forest ecology and wildlife.

[00:21:56]We never polluted the rivers.

[00:22:00]Though most of us are non-vegetarian, we did not exploit the forest and wildlife for a greed.

[00:22:11]Today friends, I cannot say since it is in my culture to eat anything that moves, I will shoot down any birds.

[00:22:22]Today I cannot say that. In fact, one of the students, he was carrying a catapult secretly in in one of the campuses which I will