{"id":21224,"date":"2024-03-05T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:12:25","slug":"risa-textile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/risa-textile\/","title":{"rendered":"Risa Textile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Risa Textile<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a handwoven cloth\u00a0used as a female upper garment, and also as headgear, a stole, or a present to express respect.<\/li>\n<li>It is woven in colourful designs and has a\u00a0crucial social and religious significance.<\/li>\n<li>Adolescent Tripuri girls are first given a risa to wear in an event called\u00a0Risa Sormani, at age 12 to 14.<\/li>\n<li>Religious relevance: The risa is used in religious festivals such as Garia Puja by tribal communities, a turban by men during weddings and festivals, a cummerbund over the dhoti, a head scarf by young girls and boys, and a muffler during winters.<\/li>\n<li>The cloth is also used as a makeshift hanger to hold an infant on mothers\u2019 backs.<\/li>\n<li>It is presented as a mark of\u00a0honour to distinguished recipients.<\/li>\n<li>Risa is common in almost all 19 indigenous tribal communities of Tripura.<\/li>\n<li>The traditional Tripuri female attire consists of three parts \u2014 risa, rignai and rikutu.\n<ul>\n<li>Risa is a handwoven cloth used as a female upper garment.<\/li>\n<li>Rignai is primarily worn as the lower garment and literally means \u2018to wear\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Rituku is mainly used as a wrap, or like a \u2018chunri\u2019 or a \u2018pallu\u2019 of the Indian saree. It is also used to cover the heads of newly married Tripuri women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The complete Tripuri attire is claimed to have originated even before the time of the Manikya kings, who ruled Tripura for over 500 years starting from the 15th century.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Geographical Indication Tag?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.This is typically used for agricultural products, foodstuffs, wine and spirit drinks, handicrafts and industrial products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/tripura-traditional-attire-risa-gi-tag-manik-saha-9193575\/lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tripura\u2019s traditional tribal attire \u2018risa\u2019 gets GI tag: CM Manik Saha<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risa Textile  is a handwoven cloth used as a female upper garment, and also as headgear, a stole, or a present to express respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}