A study on peace building through visual festival with special reference to Bwisagu of Tamulpur, Bodoland Territorial Region

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  • PageNo: 2347-2351
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  • The peace remains freedom from disturbance. It is societal friendship and harmonious living together. Peace is only one way to grow friendship and shaping the positive mindsets in our society. Thus it can foster the peace building influencing the cultural activities and performance. Concerning this, Bodo people have an ideal visual festival among their festivals, supposed to demonstrate and perform for showing unity and friendship. This is considered visual centenary of Bodo people. It is related to the year of April month. In Bodo language, people are commonly entitle as ‘Bwisagu’. ‘Baisagu’ that derived from 'Baisa' means ‘Bwswr’ in Bodo sense and 'Agu' means begin or beginning for rushing as the starting. This spells by way of ‘Baisagu’ which is observed like a spring festival in every year. This Festival reflects on happiness and entertainment. It is celebrated with their traditional dress to sing song and dances. The Bodo people usually ready to observe New Year commemoration which starts around mid of April month. In this festival seven days different activities are encompassed. It is observed as collective evidences in different places of Tamulpur. Through Bwisagu festival each and every Youngers and elders are respect each other for harmony and peace management among their society.

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@article{173182,
        author = {Dr. Alangbar Swargiary and Dr. Nilam Kumari},
        title = {A study on peace building through visual festival with special reference to Bwisagu of Tamulpur, Bodoland Territorial Region},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {2347-2351},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=173182},
        abstract = {The peace remains freedom from disturbance. It is societal friendship and harmonious living together. Peace is only one way to grow friendship and shaping the positive mindsets in our society. Thus it can foster the peace building influencing the cultural activities and performance. Concerning this, Bodo people have an ideal visual festival among their festivals, supposed to demonstrate and perform for showing unity and friendship. This is considered visual centenary of Bodo people. It is related to the year of April month. In Bodo language, people are commonly entitle as ‘Bwisagu’. ‘Baisagu’ that derived from 'Baisa' means ‘Bwswr’ in Bodo sense and 'Agu' means begin or beginning for rushing as the starting. This spells by way of ‘Baisagu’ which is observed like a spring festival in every year. This Festival reflects on happiness and entertainment. It is celebrated with their traditional dress to sing song and dances. The Bodo people usually ready to observe New Year commemoration which starts around mid of April month. In this festival seven days different activities are encompassed. It is observed as collective evidences in different places of Tamulpur. Through Bwisagu festival each and every Youngers and elders are respect each other for harmony and peace management among their society.},
        keywords = {Peace, celebration, visual, unity, and dance.},
        month = {February},
        }

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Swargiary, D. A., & Kumari, D. N. (2025). A study on peace building through visual festival with special reference to Bwisagu of Tamulpur, Bodoland Territorial Region. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 11(9), 2347–2351.

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