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Boori Boot

Garima Chaudhry Hiranya Citi Tata Topper Garima Chaudhry

Boori Boot Festival Arunachal Pradesh

 

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 Hiranya Citi Tata Topper

Garima Chaudhry

Garima is a corporate leader and the Founder and Editor of Cultural Samvaad. An Indic Studies enthusiast, she is a guest faculty member at the Mumbai University and K J Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies among other institutes . Passionate about understanding India’s ancient 'संस्कृति 'or culture, Garima believes that using a unique idiom which is native to our land and her ethos, is the key to bringing sustainable growth and change in India.

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 two decades 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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