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The Bearded Traveling Soul on his well known turf again. Scanning the periphery of the Kaziranga Jungles with people who have a penchant for the wild. Do visit www.beardedtravelingsoul.com for more stories

Northeast India, with its colorful tribes, sub-tribes, and its many expressive cultures fill the yearly calendar with myriad traditional festivals.

But of late, this region has also homegrown some festivals where art and its finer nuances finds the appropriate note. For many art lovers, a good art festival can be a truly augmented creative experience.

The river wind, on a cold January morning did bite. I was covered from head to toe with all the latest riding gears but still could feel the biting wind as I rode my motorcycle from Jorhat town to Neemati ghat, the boarding jetty point to Majuli River Island. I had to catch the 8:30 AM ferry to cross over the Brahmaputra River.

Silently abhorred by other Naga tribes for their affinity with the neighboring plains people and their largely educated population, Aos, the predominant tribe in Mokokchung has several influencers in different fields.

He has his roots in Silchar and Dhubri. Shahwar did his schooling from Silchar and Guwahati and graduated from college in Guwahati. He had started working for an English newspaper as a sports sub-editor right after his higher school. In his own words “This was basically to pay the installments of a motorcycle that I had bought…a sum of Rs 600 per month!”

Read about some contemporary festivals in Northeast India that are making waves in fields of creative and fine arts.