Boys get to hold girls’ hands and dance once a year at Manipur's Thabal Chongba

Thabal Chongba literally means ‘the full moon dance’ and is performed on roads and grounds in every locality of Manipur during the five nights of Holi or Yaoshang festivities. Young men and women hold hands and dance in a big circle around lit tube lights to the tunes of a particular pattern for four to five hours. Generally, a pattern of music continues for an hour with 15-minute intervals.

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