{"id":7423,"date":"2022-11-06T05:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:07:58","slug":"wangala-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wangala-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangala Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Wangala Dance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wangala Festival, also known as the 100 drum festival is celebrated with much zeal and enthusiasm in India\u2019s north-eastern state of Meghalaya.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrated since 1976, it\u2019s the most important festival of the Garo tribe and attracts a lot of tourists.<\/li>\n<li>During the Wangala, tribals offer sacrifices to please their deity Saljong, the Sun God.<\/li>\n<li>It marks the end of the long harvest season.<\/li>\n<li>The celebration also signifies the end of a long toil period in the field for the Garo tribe before the start of the winters.<\/li>\n<li>The first day of the festival is celebrated with a ceremony called Ragula which is performed in the house of the village\u2019s chief.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G3PAFH7N8.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wangala is also known as the Festival of Hundred Drums and is celebrated with different forms of dances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7423","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\/7423","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=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}