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Video | Khasi musical heritage of Meghalaya – introduction

Watch a series of short videos portraits researched and filmed by Gayatri Indira Vijaysimha and Dev Narayan Chaudhuri (Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai): young and senior members of the …

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eBook | Disseminating environment related information to improve peoples’ livelihoods: Initiative by Kalpavriksh to collectively manage a web based clearing house – Maharashtra

“India’s geographic location at the confluence of three major biogeographic zones – i.e. the Indo-Malayan, the Eurasian and the Afro-Tropical – makes it extremely biodiverse in its genes, species and …

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Learn more about tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh

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Audio & video | Alternatives offered by India’s grassroot movements: Regenerating ecosystems with insights from modernity

“The world is a living tapestry … As the weave of life is torn apart in one place, the threads unravel in another,” says author and physics professor Vandana Singh, …

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Book review | “India’s environmental pioneers: The forgotten story”

Source: “India’s environmental pioneers: The forgotten story”, Book review by Yuvan Aves, Frontline, 13 January 2025URL: https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/speaking-with-nature-indian-environmental-pioneers-ramachandra-guha/article69057477.eceDate visited: 20 January 2025

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Tribal language and bilingual newspapers: Key findings & conclusions

Source: http://www.thehoot.org/research/special-reports/mapping-tribal-language-newspapers-9860Address: http://www.thehoot.org/research/special-reports/mapping-tribal-language-newspapers-9860Date Visited: Sun Jan 08 2017 19:20:30 GMT+0100 (CET) [Bold typeface added above for emphasis]

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Appreciation for paintings from Maharashtra’s ‘Pinguli Chitragathi’ and Rajasthan’s ‘Mewar School’: An astonishing variety of local art

Source: Art from rural India finds an urban home by Meena Verma, founder-director of ‘Arts of the Earth’ gallery in Lado Sarai (Delhi), Deccan Herald, 3 July 2012Address: https://www.deccanherald.com/content/261313/art-rural-india-finds-urban.htmlDate Visited: …

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The relevance of Gandhi’s legacy for solving modern India’s socio-economic problems: Addressing the needs of peasants, labourers, students and tribals

IS there such a thing as Gandhi’s legacy?For fifty years we have enshrined him. We must now enfranchise him again.by Gopalkrishna Gandhi [1997] IS there such a thing as Gandhi’s …