Villagers exchange bamboo tubes filled with rice beer as a mark of greeting and goodwill.

Drinking rice beer indispensably forms as part of the feasts.

In various parts of north-eastern India, traditional rice beer is quite popular.

If any kind of mistakes are found then they will be fined in which they has to offer rice beer.

The elephant driver came out of the trees, a bucket of rice beer in each hand.

Interestingly the declared hero or winner has to entertain the villagers with rice beer and meat.

Then the village elder would feast together by eating the meat and drinking the rice beer.

There are different varieties of rice beer with different flavours.

A form of rice beer, known as zupar or zuhrin, is also drunk.

Jugs of rice beer and plates of meat are placed before the participants.