Vishnu Vardhan

Fading identity amid urban growth – nomads were crucial to the British era in a variety of sectors, including acrobatics, handicrafts, animal husbandry, storytelling, tattooing, fortune telling, and ayurvedic medicine. However, these nomadic tribes have lost their jobs, status, and identities in modern society as a result of modernization and rural expansion. They suffered greatly […]

Manipur’s Kukis demand Bodoland-like territorial council, unhappy about delays in talks Kuki rebel groups are wary of central govt’s talks with NSCN (I-M) and delay in their own talks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which they label ‘procrastination’. As the union government and leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak- Muivah) continue their

Nomadic Van Gujjars in northern India fear remaining in the forest while their resettled relatives struggle to adjust. The Van Gujjars are a forest-dwelling community who live in several different pockets spread across northern India’s lower Himalayan region. The Van Gujjars Name The name ’Van Gujjar’ loosely translates to ‘forest pastoral community’. ‘Van’ in Hindi

Beautiful Traditional Art Of Gond Tribe (Paintings) In 1980s, when a couple of Pradhan Gond Tribe artists, like Jangarh Singh Shayam and Narmada Gond started making names for themselves. As they moved away from traditional mural-paintings and started making their traditional art on the papers. In their paintings, they brought into light a unique style