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The Hornbill Festival – A Visual Treat The Hornbill Festival, held in the first week of December every year, is a marvelous riot of colour that shows off the rich fare of diverse cultures and traditional arts that is Nagaland. Here you can witness the attires, folk music and dance forms, headgears, cuisines, paintings, handicrafts, […]

Purushwadi – Living the Tribal Life Gangadharan Menon visits Purushwadi, a tribal village in Maharashtra, and discovers its many paradoxes while celebrating Holi with them. Experience with him the joys of living a tribal village life, largely untouched by external influences, but where sadly things are changing as well, in a place governed by a

Acoustic Traditional – Preserving Indigenous Tales, Myths and Legends India is estimated to have about 635 indigenous communities. Each of these groups of people have a unique identity, with their very own brand of culture, traditions and folklore. Unfortunately, most of this knowledge is passed on from generation to generation in the oral form, and

Brick By Brick, Grain By Grain, Gyarsi Bai And Team Stock Up Against Starvation The sun is about to set in Sunda village in Kishanganj block of Baran district that lies in southeast Rajasthan, on the border with Madhya Pradesh. A group of men and women dig the earth with spades on a small plot

Bengal’s Tribal Women Lead Change, Ensure Food-Security and Fight Social Ills Tribal women of Purulia district in West Bengal have learnt, with the help of several NGOs and SHGs, to implement efficient water management techniques and multi-crop approach and achieved food-sufficiency in a region that was on the „drought-hit‟ list in spite of heavy rainfalls.

Transforming Tribal Kids In 60 Days Life in the tribal belt of Rajasthan‟s Udaipur district is very rough. Shrinking forests and pasture lands, on the one hand, and small, unproductive farm holdings, on the other, are squeezing life out of many a home, with the adult occupants forced to bundle up their few belongings and

Doctor couple does wonders for tribals at Sittilingi Sittilingi is a remote village in Dharmapuri district, 125 km away from Salem town in Tamil Nadu, which used to be a god forsaken land caught under the spell of quacks and black magic. Noisy drums and fake injections were all they had to cure illnesses. This

Art Of Healing Among India’s Poorest: A Remarkable Woman Doctor’s Story  Dr Rani Bang lives and works in Gadchiroli, a district in central India known for its remarkable tribal traditions as for its ‘underdevelopment’. A doctor specialising in gynaecology, she with her husband, Abhay Bang, also a doctor, has worked in this remote region for

Tribal Health & Nutrition Portal -“Swasthya” Tribal Health & Nutrition Portal: One-stop solution for the health & nutrition status of the tribal population of India. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs in collaboration with Piramal Swasthya, the Centre of Excellence has developed this Tribal Health and Nutrition Portal ‘Swasthya’, a one- stop solution presenting all information

Forest depts as nodal agency for community forest resources: A political blunder The Chhattisgarh government issued an order on May 31, 2020 making the state forest department the nodal agency for Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) under the Scheduled Tribes and the Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006. The move invoked discontent from several quarters. Alok