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Category Archives: Storytelling
Video trailer | “Belle” on the (ongoing) campaign to end slavery throughout the world: A well-told story with accountability as the key to overcoming discrimination – United Kingdom
Belle Trailer 2013 – Official 2014 movie trailer […] The illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Captain in the Royal Navy finds her unique social standing become instrumental in the campaign to end slavery in England after meeting an idealistic young vicar’s … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Colonial policies, Community facilities, Democracy, Education and literacy, Film, History, Northern region – Northern Zonal Council, Organizations, Press snippets, Quotes, Rural poverty, Social conventions, Storytelling, Tagore and rural culture, Women
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Video | “Please sister, pluck me a flower”: Santal puppetry and dhodro banam exponent Damon Murmu documented by Daricha Foundation – West Bengal
Daman Murmu is a Santal puppeteer and Banam artist from North Dinajpur in West Bengal. He performs the rare Chadar Badani form of puppetry which is practically extinct among the Santals themselves. 69 year old artist, Damon Murmu of Mahanandapur … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Crafts and visual arts, Cultural heritage, Eastern region – Eastern Zonal Council, Music and dance, Names and communities, Organizations, Performing arts, Puppetry, Quotes, Storytelling, Tribal elders, Video resources - external
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“The tribal world and the tribal way is complete in itself”: Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016)
Tour the tribal areas, she said, and “…remember the tribal areas of Bengal are part of tribal areas in their vicinity even if they belong to other states… They do not belong to this or that state… they belong to … Continue reading
Posted in Adivasi / Adibasi, Adverse inclusion, Eastern region – Eastern Zonal Council, Government of India, History, Literature - fiction, Literature and bibliographies, Misconceptions, Modernity, Press snippets, Quotes, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Storytelling, Tips, Women
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eBook | “Painted Words”: An Anthology edited by Prof Ganesh Devy – Tribal Literature from all over India
“It is almost impossible to characterize all of India’s tribals in a single ethnographic or historic framework. […] After Independence, these communities were ‘denotified’ and placed quite randomly in the schedules of tribes, castes and other ‘backward communities’. Yet anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Colonial policies, Cultural heritage, De- and re-tribalisation, eBook & eJournal, Economy and development, Endangered language, Government of India, History, Languages and linguistic heritage, Literature - fiction, Literature and bibliographies, Misconceptions, Organizations, Particularly vulnerable tribal group, Quotes, Regions of India, Storytelling, Success story, Tribal identity
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