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                                                                         Janki-Panoi house     The legend of ‘Janki-Panoi’ has been immortalized by Assamese folk-lore. Much like Romeo & Juliet, Laila & Majnum or Heer-Ranjha, their tragic saga of love and death has survived through generations of Assamese people. Even today at many places in India, love marriages are treated as a social crime. Tales of ‘Honour Killing’ and various other atrocities towards lovers, make headlines of dailies. In Assam, the present social scenario has changed over the years with families accepting the affairs of the youn...

 According to Wikipedia,                                       Who is Limbu? Limbu, one of the 59 indigenous peoples in Nepal, belong to the Kirat religious groups. They reside in the eastern hills of Arun River extending to the Sikkim and to the northern part of west Bengal. The area that Limbu are inhibiting was called ‘Pallo Kirat’ in the early times and is called Limbuwan in recent days.  Up until, the then Gorkha Kin g, Prithivi Narayan Shah invaded, there were 10 different states ruled by 10 different Limbu kings. Limbus are densely inhibited in Sankhuwasabha, Taplejung, Terahthum, Panchthar, Dhankuta and Ilam district, and are now spread across Nepal.  The term, ‘Limbu', in Limbu language means ‘the person who carries bow' or 'bow carrier'. Limbu are also called Yakthung....