{"id":3582,"date":"2023-01-31T03:51:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:04:52","slug":"shumang-leela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shumang-leela\/","title":{"rendered":"Shumang Leela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Shumang Leela:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The meaning of this theatre form is \u201ccourtyard performance\u201d, which is performed <strong>in Manipur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In this, the roles of women are all played by men, called <strong>Nupi Shabis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the case of women\u2019s theatre groups, the roles of men <strong>Lai Haraoba,<\/strong> a ritual of the <strong>Meitei <\/strong>community of Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>The plays provide a vehicle for educating the public about social, political, and economic issues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types<\/strong> &#8211; Shumang Leela is of two types<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nupa Shumang Leela<\/strong> &#8211; Performed only by men<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nupi Shumang Leela<\/strong> &#8211; Performed only by women are played by women.<\/li>\n<li>The female roles are taken up by transgender actors.<\/li>\n<li>The tradition is believed to be descended from<strong> News<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Lai Haraoba ?<\/h3>\n<p>Lai Haraoba is a festival associated with the Meitei people celebrated to please the Umang Lai, the traditional deities of Sanamahism<u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>In Frames | The art of gender-bending<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shumang Leela is a theatre form which means courtyard performance, and is performed in Manipur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3582","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\/3582","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=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}