View a video and two slideshows taken during Shivaratri, the main annual festival celebtrated by the Kota community
- Video | Kota women’s dance
- Video | Kota dance
- Slideshow | Kota dance and music
- Slideshow | Kota game
More videos, slideshows and background information provided by Venkatesh Lakshmanan >>
For an in-depth study of Kota culture and music, refer to Richard K. Wolf’s award-winning study, The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India >>
Learn more
Childhood | Childrens rights: UNICEF India | Safe search
Crafts and visual arts | Masks
Education and literacy | Right to education
eBook | Adivasi Stories from Gujarat
eBook | “Where the mind is without fear”: Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel Prize
Literature and bibliographies | Literature – fiction | Poetry