11/04/2026
Wishing our dear Tutsa brothers and sisters a very Happy Pongtu Kuh ✨🙏
Pongtu Kuh is the oldest agricultural festival celebrated by the Tutsas. The literary meaning of Pongtu is “Pong” means wind, “Tu” means retreating, “khu” means festival.
The festival is celebrated after the harvesting of millet to welcome the New Year and to drive the old. Pongtu is observed to offer prayer to the supreme God Rangkathok for bumper harvest and prosperity and seek security of the crops from occurrence of natural calamities and other destructions like pests etc. The agricultural based Pongtu is celebrated in the month of April every year with pomp and gaiety.
The festival is marked by several events like practicing of Rom-Hom a traditional chicken sacrifice for producing fire through rubbing a bamboo stick in hay in order to forecast whether the year would prove prosperous for them or not.
It is believed that the sacrifice is given to the deity of the house and is practiced by only a section of the Tutsa tribe. Colouful Tutsa dance displayed by folks of energetic and beautiful youths are the major attraction of the festival.
