Tribal Cultural Heritage in India
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“If tribals were the real enemies of the tigers then the only tigers left would not have been in tribal areas.” – Indian social workers Pushpanjali Sathpathy & Gunjan Jain (report on the way tribal communities displaced by “Project Tiger” authorities in the Simlipal Biosphere Reserve, part of UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves)
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Anjana Basu, Outlook (Opinion), 13 October 2015 […] The odd thing was that it all started in Santhal land where an honorary Santhal named Rabindranath Tagore threw his knighthood in …
To read the full report, click here >> Almost three decades ago, a teenager, after noticing the deaths of a large number of reptiles due to a lack of a …
Transcription from the video excerpt From 30:38 What Survival isn’t about: It’s not about keeping anybody as they are. It’s not about preserving cultures. And the reason we stress that is: …
A film maker considers tribal communities’ rights The Hindu, Bangalore, September 7, 2012 […] The documentary, titled The Truth about Tigers was made in English. It has since been translated to …
Michael Parker, The Hindu, July 29, 2013 The tiger population has dropped precipitously from around 40,000 in 1850 to fewer than 2,000 today, and as their numbers and habitat have shrunk, so …
Text and photo credits: Accord team, Tarsh and Tariq Thekaekara, Gudalur, July 24, 2013 | Read the full blog here >> Listening to K. Chandran’s story, we ended up with muddled …
PAVAN DAHAT, AMRAVATI (MAHARASHTRA), January 2, 2013 Three water hand pumps, out of which only one is working, one defunct TV set (used only for show), three telephone connections (out of …
On first sight, says Lakshmanan, he was appalled at their condition. “They had nothing. The education and health conditions of the people were very bad. They had no community certificates,” …