India’s first community getting its forest rights recognised: living in the core area of a tiger reserve – Karnataka

Amoolya Rajappa, 5 October 2018 | Read the full report and view more photos here >> The Soligas created history by becoming the first tribal community living in the core area …

Video | More than simply a theatre company, set up for a total experience: Trimukhi Platform – West Bengal

For recent reports on “Santal music”, “Trimukhi theatre” and similar topics, use the search field seen below: Google custom search – Indian press coverage of tribal culture and education TRIMUKHI …

Thulir, a modern school where alternatives to mainstream education, technologies and lifestyles are explored – Tamil Nadu

We at Thulir have been looking at alternatives to the mainstream education system, so that we may be able to cater to the needs of those children who get left …

Video | “Let us come together and preserve those most valuable core values of Tribal Culture”: AYUSH (Adivasi Yuva Shakti)

  Worlds Most Practical & Scientific Culture, Tribal Culture. Today facing great risk of being vanishing. Let us come together & Preserve those most valuable core values of Tribal Culture. …

An inspiration to many young girls from the Koya tribe: Jayanti Buruda, “the first female voice from the tribe to enter the mainstream media” –  Odisha

Girls among the Koya tribe have a staggeringly low literacy level. “Girls hardly go to school, the literacy rate among girls is below 15 percent,” she adds. With little infrastructure …

Video | Rainwater harvesting by the “hill dwelling” Sauria Paharia community: Compensating loss of forest cover through agriculture – Jharkhand

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International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (9 August) – UNESCO

[…]  Over the last decade, the implementation of the Declaration has achieved some major successes in at the national, regional and international levels. Despite the achievements, there continues to be a …

Towards self-dependence: Culture and development-oriented research of indigenous crops – Telangana

The Hindu, 29 June 2017 “Mallapur was an excellent case study as people here had achieved self-dependence so far as food is concerned through cultivation of indigenous crops,” Ms. Vemula, …