{"id":27763,"date":"2025-10-23T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27763"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:33:45","slug":"ningol-chakkouba-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ningol-chakkouba-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ningol Chakouba Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ningol Chakouba Festival Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, the Department of Fisheries, Manipur, organises the Annual Fish Fair cum Fish Crop Competition on the day ahead of the Ningol Chakouba festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ningol Chakouba Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival is <\/span><b>celebrated every year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the second day of <\/span><b>Hiyangei month<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Meitei calendar.\u00a0 <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ningol means \u2018<\/span><b>married woman\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Chakouba means \u2018invitation for feast\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; so the festival is the one where the married women are invited to their parents\u2019 home for a feast.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main component of the festival is the <\/span><b>visit of married sisters to their maternal homes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for grand feast and joyous reunion followed by giving away the gifts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is customary for the son of the<\/span><b> family to extend a formal invitation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to his sister for Ningol Chakkouba a week before the gathering.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival is held today outside Manipur where Manipuris are settled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The essence is to <\/span><b>strengthen the bond of affection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among the brothers and sisters, daughters and parents of a family.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>History of Ningol Chakouba<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It dates back to the time when <\/span><b>King Nongda Lairen Pakhangba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ruled in Manipur.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Queen Laisana used to invite her brother Poireiton to the King\u2019s palace for a feast once in a year. So, it was <\/span><b>known as Piba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (brother\/son) Chakouba rather than Ningol Chakouba.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tradition changed during the time <\/span><b>of King Chadrakirti Singh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1831-1886) in the 19th century. He invited his sisters for the feast as it was difficult for him to visit their places in one day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the tradition <\/span><b>changed to Ningol Chakouba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since then and continued to become an integral part of Manipur\u2019s rich culture and heritage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/manipur-celebrates-ningol-chakouba-festival-of-bond-between-married-women-and-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News On Air<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ningol Chakkouba Festival is celebrated every year on the second day of the lunar month of Hiyangei in the Meitei calendar, honoring the bond between brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3352],"class_list":{"0":"post-27763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ningol-chakkouba-festival","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763","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=27763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}