“Culture is a way of coping with the World by defining it in detail” -- Malcolm Bradbury A Note to the Celebration The Tharlȃk Kût 2023 cum Recognition Celebration was a grandly extravaganza celebration festival observed by the Darlong folk where flashes of their grand past can be reflected by the common men and women. Fashioning oneself in Black, yellow, green, red, green, yellow and black strip, the festival’s arena can never be much magnificent and astonishing: it is a time for sharing joy and woe, an hour of love for lovers and beloveds, a moment to cherish for families, a platform to pluck beautiful and handsome life partners and a leisure period for busy men and women, the arena’s melody is a whistle of phone and camera clicks, the bikes station in colours, the vehicles parks in file, the banners singing alongside the sign of the breeze, the exhibitionists in pub