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Slideshow | Ancient rock art and modern graffiti: Continuity of tribal tradition since 1500 B.C. – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 27/07/2020 by website administrator

India has about 5,000 rock art sites, next only to Australia and South Africa, where prehistoric people have recorded life as they saw it, in paintings, engravings and carvings. Finding and decoding this artistic “perception of reality” is a challenge … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Exhibition “Ancestors’ Abode” at the Museum of Santal Culture (Bishnubati) inaugurated on Museum Day – West Bengal

Posted on 11/07/2020 by website administrator

Museum Day was celebrated with the performance of dance-drama presented by local villagers and a seminar on the ‘Museum of Santal Culture: Its future and the possibilities of attracting mainstream visitors’. Our new exhibition is named Hapram Dander which means … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Kuruma community of Wayanad: A living heritage – Kerala

Posted on 07/07/2020 by website administrator

Photos courtesy © 2014 Arun VC

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Slideshow | Food producers turned consumers – Western Ghats

Posted on 20/05/2020 by website administrator

The impact of COVID 19 is such that the indigenous people – once “food producers” in their own right – have become “food consumers”. Due to falling food production they are now wholly dependant on food items in markets. The … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | A cause for celebration: The “Village Gold” bio-product shop supported by the Bose Institute’s ST-Bio-Technology Programme – West Bengal

Posted on 20/12/2019 by website administrator

The inauguration of our “Village Gold” bio-product shop took place on 6th February, 2016 in the presence of several dignitaries including Mr. Olaf Iversen (Consul General, Federal Republic of Germany, Kolkata), Mr. Suban Roy Chowdhury and Prof. Gautam Chakraborty (Bose Institute, … Continue reading →

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