Ningol Chakouba festival (2014) celebration in Montreal, Canada
October 28, 2014
Ningol Chakouba festival (2014) celebration in Montreal, Canada
Ningol Chakouba festival is celebrated in Manipur on the second day of the new Moon in the Manipuri month of Hiyangei, which is in November month. In this festival, throughout the Manipur, brothers (Pibas) invite their married sisters (Ningols) and daughters to their parental house for a grand feast and follow by the presentation of gifts.Their sisters bless them for happiness and prosperity with their warm wishes of love, emotional support and encouragement.
This is one of the festivals celebrated in Manipur, which brings a strong bonding of love and emotion among brothers and sisters (Pibas- Ningols). Nodaway's, Meitei's staying in different parts of the country or across the globe also celebrate this festival of Ningol Chakouba as a mandatory festival in accordance with Manipur tradition.
We also celebrated the festival of Ningol chakouba in Montreal, a province in Canada with the hope of bringing the bonding of love, caring and encouragement among brothers (Pibas) and sisters ((Ningols). This event gave us an opportunity of meeting all the Pibas and the Ningols of the Montreal City. This festival was like a form of family get together event to revive the affection of all Meitei's staying around the Montreal City.
During the event, all the Pibas and the Ningols met each other and shared our point of views. We spent our times with a lot of fun. Up to some extent, we almost felt the similar environment of Ningol Chakouba celebrated in our sweet home looking in some prospective like getting togetherness of Ningols and Pibas, sharing our thoughts and ideas, fun and pleasure shown by kids during the events.
This event was celebrated in an Indian restaurant located near Plamandon Metro station considering the convenience of the people. Even though we missed the homely made traditional Manipuri cuisine like eromba and special Manipuri fish curries, we really enjoy the foods provided by the restaurant on the occasion.
Overall, It was a memorable and significant moment for everybody. We hope to continue this tradition in the coming years too.
Once again, we give our warm wishes to all Ningols of Montreal including the individual who are unable to join the event because of their personal constraints and inconvenience. We also extend our best wishes to all ningols staying in other province in Canada, other countries and in our sweet motherland Manipur.
We believed that this Ningol Chakouba celebration become a great successful and memorable event because of the support and involvement of the all Pibas staying in and around the Montreal City irrespective of their origin. Finally, we also would like to thank Manipur Association of Canada (MAC) for their valuable support to make this event successful and memorable one.
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This Press Release was posted on October 29 2014
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