Aoling Festival
Star Champions|April 2017

Every year, in the first week of April, the Mon district in the eastern corner of Nagaland wears a festive look.

Sujatha Gourishankar
Aoling Festival

This is the time when the Konyak people of Nagaland celebrate the ‘Aoling ‘festival. The Konyak are well known and rather famous. This was due to a practice that they followed in the past…. it was the practice of head hunting!

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