Thalfavang Kut

A state-organised event rather than a surviving village rite — the Tourism Department runs it to promote tourism, and it is the Mizo festival most set up for outside visitors.

Agriculturally it marks the completion of weeding and the run-up to the harvest, which makes it the odd one out among the kuts — celebrated before the harvest rather than after it.

Traditional Mizo dances are the centrepiece, with Cheraw, Sawlakai, Siktuithiang lam and Chheih lam performed in one programme, alongside indigenous games, folk songs and a feast.

Four named Mizo dances performed in sequence, with games and a communal meal.

None in the religious sense; it marks a stage of the farming year.

Revived and staged by the Mizoram Tourism Department as a showcase, drawing on the older agricultural calendar of the kuts.