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Biodiversity & tribal culture: “Organic Bazaar” – Karntataka

Source: “Biodiversity expo has something for everyone”, The Hindu, 9 December 2012 Address : https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/biodiversity-expo-has-something-for-everyone/article4179106.eceDate Visited: 21 March 2024

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Unveiling richness of tribal and folk culture: Festival and exhibition at the Bhandarkar’s College of Arts and Science – Karnataka

Ganesh Prabhu, The Hindu, Kundapur (Udupi District), February 17, 2015 | To read the full article and view more photos, click here >> The richness of tribal and folk culture of coastal …

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“Was Narmada valley the centre of human evolution?”: Excavations along one of India’s seven holy rivers

Was India home to one or more unknown hominin species, fossils of which we have not yet been discovered? And did they interbreed with the pre-existing hominid groups in the …

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The crisis within by G.N. Devy (Book review): “Nearly one in every twelve humans is a young Indian for whom meaningful education is of critical importance”

The crisis within by G.N. DevyISBN: 978-93-83064-10-6Genre: Non-Fiction/ EconomicsPublishers: Aleph PublishersPrice: Rs. 399/- Nearly one in every twelve humans is a young Indian for whom meaningful education is of critical …

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India’s Tribal (Adivasi) “carnivals”: Tribal communities on display

What does a “tribal carnival” entail? Find out with the help of a PhD thesis made available by Shodhganga or by using the search window below:   GUJARAT TOURISM: REVIEW, GROWTH …

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Adivasi poetry that “expresses unwillingness and disagreement”: Probing into the culture of the ex-tea garden labourers – Assam

On second day of TLF, session on “Young Tribal Writers; Their Themes, Issues and Challenges was organized.” The session was chaired by Prof. Sivashish Biswas, Assam University, Assam. During the session, …

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“Native science” in food systems: A wide range of tribal processes of perceiving, thinking, acting, and coming to know

Source: Food sovereignty as decolonization: some contributions from Indigenous movements to food system and development politics by Sam Grey & Raj Patel © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 URL: http://rajpatel.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Grey-Patel-2015-Food-Sovereignty-as-Decolonization.pdfDate …

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Teaching Santal children by Boro Baski

Though India is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, our small cluster of two Adivasi villages in West Bengal has not suffered infections yet. We do feel the economic impacts …