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Thoku Emong — a festival of gratitude.

Most folk festivals are about gratitude, and thanks giving. So is the Lothas Naga festival of Thoku Emong. Thoku means feast, and Emong is halt.

The festival is celebrated by the Naga Lothas tribe in the first week of November. The government however has currently declared 6th– 7th of November as the festival days though it goes on up to the 9th at times.

The priest proclaims the onset of the…