How a tribe in Arunachal is using festivities to preserve its language

A small tribe in Arunachal Pradesh thoroughly enjoys its annual Kro-Cheykor festival. It's a time for praying, eating, drinking, dancing

Visiting Northeast India must feature on most travel bucket-lists. My list is no different. So when an opportunity to travel to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh presented itself, thanks to a friend’s wedding, Google was consulted. Date of travel. Check. Cheapest flight tickets to and from Guwahati. Check.

And then a unique problem of plenty. Where does one go? In confident naiveté, I planned a five-day Guwahati-Mawsynram-Guwahati-Tawang road trip, only to be told that this was not possible in the present or any parallel world. Then a senior colleague suggested Shergaon.

Photos he’d taken of the place helped cement the idea.