Bushu Dima (Busu Dima) is an annual

cultural festival A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes ...

celebrated by the Dimasa Kachari tribe of

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. It is the main harvesting festival for

Dimasa people The Dimasa people or Dimasa Kachari people are an ethnolinguistic community presently inhabiting in Assam and Nagaland states in Northeastern India. They speak Dimasa, a Tibeto-Burman language. This community is fairly homogeneous and excl ...

. It is celebrated after the completion of grain harvest in different villages. The festival is usually organized in January.

Festival

Busu Dima festival is divided into these three types: ; Jidaap : Jidaap is a Busu festival that lasts for 2 days. ; Surem Baino: Surem Baino is a Busu festival that is celebrated for a total of five days. ; Hangshu Busu: Hangshu Busu, which is celebrated for a total of seven days.

Dance

The festival is followed by singing accompanied by the rhythm of Kharam (drums), Muri (fife) the wooden bugle continues first to third days without stop. The boys and girls, everyone comes and they gather together with their traditional dress whole night by dancing in the festival.

References

Festivals in Assam January observances {{India-culture-stub