Dongria Tribe Of Niyamgiri Revive Climate-Resilient Heirloom Seeds The sun rose above the jagged spires of the Niyamgiri hills, the sky a wisp of apricot on rolling mounds of green. Trees bent with mangoes and jackfruits dropped manna for the occasional passerby. Around a dirt bend, a warm symphony drifted from a hill slope: the […]

India is home to about 60,000 people from the community which descended from Bantu people of Africa       Presence of Siddis in India can be traced back as far as the 7th century. It is believed that they were first brought in by Arabs as slaves followed by Portuguese and Britishers. They have been

How conserving tribal languages will preserve dying cultures In a culturally and linguistically diverse country like India, there is a need to conserve the tribal languages that are dying. One of the most complex problems in India is the problem of languages. India has seen many movements to conserve the native languages; even demanding separate

Jharkhand: Tribal Farmers Tap Solar Irrigation To Cut Migration   The Chotanagpur Plateau in eastern India, crisscrossed with streams, once was lush green even in winter. But increasingly erratic rainfall in recent years has made life much harder for the region’s impoverished indigenous subsistence farmers, most of whom rely on monsoon rains between June and September to grow