Tag Archives: Katunaikar

Our trip to the Adivasi festival in Ranchi: School blog about an excursion from the Nilgiri mountains of Tamil Nadu to Jharkhand in central India

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

This week, our blog is coming to you from the students of Class 9. […] In order, you can see (back row left-right) Tariq (one of our supervisors), Srudilaya, Prasad, Mridul, Priya (one of our teachers), then (front row left-right) … Continue reading →

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Storytelling and local history in tribal school curriculum: Gudalur region (Nilgiri) – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

March 27th, 2013 […] A few of us have been busy over the last few weeks. We are trying to find ways to share stories of our local history with other in our school and family. For many years, the Adivasis … Continue reading →

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Cycling for Elephants! Initiative by The Shola Trust in Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 31/01/2013 by website administrator

We are working with the Make a Difference (MaD) initiative to organise a cycling fund-raiser for our work around ‘elephants in the matrix’. The ‘conflict vs coexistence’ (and larger sharing vs sparing) debate is of course vibrant, but most our work is in … Continue reading →

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Human Development Report of Tribal Communities 2010 – Kerala

Posted on 27/11/2012 by website administrator

Roy Mathew, The Hindu, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, September 30, 2010 Land alienation continues to be a major issue among tribal communities, according to studies done by the State Planning Board. The Human Development Report of Tribal Communities in Kerala, prepared by the Planning … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia – list of tribal communities in Kerala

Posted on 30/10/2012 by website administrator

Tribals in Kerala (Adivasis of Kerala) are the indigenous population found in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Most of the tribal people of Kerala live in the forests and mountains of Western Ghats, bordering Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. […] Tribals in Kerala are living on … Continue reading →

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