
Indian Navy tableau and brass band at Republic Day Parade on Kartavya Path, in Delhi
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The Indian Navy's ceremonial tableau proceeds along Kartavya Path during India's annual Republic Day Parade in New Delhi.
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Kumauni man singing traditional song at Kangdali Festival, Pithoragarh. Kangdali Festival is a festival held by the rung tribe of the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. This festival coincides with the blooming of the Kandali plant, which flowers once every twelve years. It is held in the Chaudas Valley between August and October. The legend of the Kandali Festival comes a folklore, which tells of a boy who died upon applying the paste of the root from a shrub known as Kang-Dali on his boil. Enraged, his widowed mother cursed the shrub and ordered the Shauka women to pull up the root of the Kang-Dali plant off its ground upon reaching its full bloom, which happens once in twelve years. Since then, a victory dance is performed every twelve years upon the decimation this shrub in its bloom
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