{"id":3945,"date":"2023-10-29T08:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:15:58","slug":"kandali-festival-held-after-every-12-years-celebrated-in-chaudans-valley-of-pithoragarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/kandali-festival-held-after-every-12-years-celebrated-in-chaudans-valley-of-pithoragarh\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kandali\u2019 festival held after every 12 years celebrated in Chaudans valley of Pithoragarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Kandali\u2019 festival held after every 12 years celebrated in Chaudans valley of Pithoragarh<\/p>\n<p>B.D.Kasniyal<\/p>\n<p>Pithoragarh, Oct 29<\/p>\n<p>The victory festival of &#8216;Kandali&#8217; which is celebrated once every 12 years was celebrated in Ch\u00e0udans valley villages, on Saturday. The festival concluded with honouring married daughters and their husbands. Dharchula MLA Harish Dhami, inaugurated the festival this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The festival of \u2018Kandali\u2019, celebrated in Ch\u00e0udans valley is celebrated once in 12 years, when the villagers gather in a ground in ceremonial dresses and\u00a0destroy plants of \u2018Kandali\u2019, as it is considered an evil for the community,&#8221; \u00a0said Shalu Datal, resident of Dharchula. Kandali is a nettle plant, it&#8217;s botanical name is, \u2018Urtica Dioica\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3947\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali2-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali2-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rung community members dancing in their traditional attire during &#8216;Kandali&#8217; festival in Chaundans valley of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Datal, the festival is celebrated in the memory of a tragedy that happened with an old woman some 400 years ago, in which her lone child a 12 years old son died after consuming \u2018Kandali\u2019 flowers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In deep shock\u00a0 the woman cursed the \u2018Kandali\u2019 plant to be destroyed in every 12 years time. Since then, the villagers of all 14 villages of Chaudans valley gather to destroy the plant showing affinity with the sorrow of that woman,&#8221; said Pushkar Singh Sirkhal, one of the organiser \u00a0of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>According to another folk tale, once a group of dacoits\u00a0attacked the Chaudans valley and hid behind \u2018Kandali\u2019 plants before attacking the Chaudans valley villagers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3948\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person after uprooting a &#8216;Kandali&#8217; plaint during &#8216;Kandali&#8217; festival in Chaundans valley of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the women in groups came out with \u2018Ril\u2019, an instrument used in knitting a carpet, and destroyed the \u2018Kandali\u2019 plants \u00a0exposing the dacoits, who were made to run by male members of community.&#8221;That is why we celebrate it as festival of victory,&#8221; said Pushkar Singh Sirkhal, a member of Rung community of Chaudans valley.<\/p>\n<p>This year the\u00a0villagers gathered\u00a0at Chidangyar ground of Chaudans valley, some 1.5 km away from Sirkha village.&#8221;From there the villagers, dressed in traditional ceremonial costumes set for the forest to destroy grown up \u2018Kandali\u2019 plants and returned victorious after destroying these and congratulated each other for victory over \u2018Kandali\u2019,&#8221; said Arvind Khair, a member of organising committee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3949\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3949 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali4.jpg 576w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali4-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/kandali4-461x1024.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8216;Kandali&#8217; plant which is a nettle plant and it&#8217;s botanical name is, \u2018Urtica Dioica\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senior members of Rung committee, living in Changru region of Nepal also participated in the festival.\u00a0 &#8220;Over 50 married girls of Chaudans valley along with their husbands were also honoured by the villagers on the occasion,&#8221; said Sirkhal.<\/p>\n<p>Mahiman Singh Hyanki (86) from Sirkha village said this it is his 6th \u2018Kandali\u2019 in his lifetime till date.&#8221;I have found same enthusiasm among participants in all past six \u00a0occasions, that I participated in my last 86 years life,&#8221; said Hyanki.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Kandali\u2019 festival held after every 12 years celebrated in Chaudans valley of Pithoragarh B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Oct 29 The victory festival of &#8216;Kandali&#8217; which is celebrated once every 12 years was celebrated in Ch\u00e0udans valley villages, on Saturday. The festival concluded with honouring married daughters and their husbands. Dharchula MLA Harish Dhami, inaugurated the festival this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,39,59],"tags":[1586,1585,160,983],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-tourism","category-uttarakhand","tag-chaundans-valley","tag-kandali-festival","tag-pithoragarh","tag-rung-community"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Kandali\u2019 festival held after every 12 years celebrated in Chaudans valley of Pithoragarh - Northern Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/kandali-festival-held-after-every-12-years-celebrated-in-chaudans-valley-of-pithoragarh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Kandali\u2019 festival held after every 12 years celebrated in Chaudans valley of Pithoragarh - Northern Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2018Kandali\u2019 festival held after every 12 years celebrated in Chaudans valley of Pithoragarh B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Oct 29 The victory festival of &#8216;Kandali&#8217; which is celebrated once every 12 years was celebrated in Ch\u00e0udans valley villages, on Saturday. 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