Boori Boot

Boori Boot is a festival inextricably linked to the divine forces of nature and the agricultural cycle. It is celebrated by the Nyishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh in early February and welcomes the onset of spring.

The Nyishis celebrate the harvest and spring with a melange of folk dances and local competitions in sports like archery. They also invoke the spirit of Boori Boot Yullo to bring prosperity and happiness, to eradicate diseases and to prevent natural calamities.

Garima Chaudhry

Garima is a corporate leader and the Founder and Editor of Cultural Samvaad. Passionate about understanding India’s ancient 'संस्कृति 'or culture, she believes that using a unique idiom which is native to our land and her ethos, is the key to bringing equitable growth and sustainable change in India.

Deeply interested in Indic Studies, Garima has been a visiting faculty member for over a decade at the Mumbai University and K J Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies among others. She has taught diploma, graduate and post graduate courses in Development of Religious Thought in India, Hindu Thought and Purakatha, Buddhism and Comparative Mythology among others. She also conducts immersive workshops for various cohorts on appreciating India and her past, her dharmic traditions and her enduring values, stories and symbols.

In her corporate avataar, Garima runs Hiranya Growth Partners LLP, a boutique consulting and content firm based in Mumbai. She is a business leader with over 25 years of experience across Financial Services, Digital Payments and eCommerce, Education and Media at Network18 (Capital18 and Topperlearning), Citibank and TAS (the Tata Group). Garima is an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and an Economics and Statistics Graduate.

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