Most youth festivals are designed. One of India’s oldest in an extremism-affected part of Assam was scripted by a stir.
The Karbi Youth Festival (KYF) in Diphu, the headquarters of the Karbi Anglong district about 250 km east of Guwahati, survived political upheavals and statehood-seeking armed struggles to turn 50. Its birth, though, was far from festive.
The 50th edition of the KYF, spanning eight days, begins on Friday. It would be headlined by the presence of President Droupadi Murmu, a first for any ethnicity-based festival in the Northeast.
