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“It is their community, so they should take responsibility for it and direct the enterprise in a way they think will benefit their development.” – B. Ramdas, co-founder of Viswa Bharati Vidyodaya Trust (VBVT) in “The story of YouTube channel Kaathadi and how it’s empowering tribal communities in TN” by Megha Kaveri (thenewsminute.com Education, 18 July 2020)
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/story-youtube-channel-kaathadi-and-how-its-empowering-tribal-communities-tn-128968
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=34846

Experimenting with the unique traditional motifs and jewellery of 400-odd tribal communities: North East Fashion Fest – Assam

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NISHIT DHOLABHAI, The Telegraph, Saturday , January 12 , 2013 New Delhi, Jan. 11: The home ministry appears to have taken a page out of Bhutan’s book of governance as it sponsors a North East Fashion Fest in Guwahati next month with actor Soha Ali Khan as brand ambassador. […] The fest on February 20-23 in … Read more

Assisting Irula farmers to market their produce: An organic food revolution in Chennai initiated by Nallakeerai’s team of youngsters – Tamil Nadu

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Read the full article and view another photo of the Nallakeerai team by R. Shivaji Rao >> The Hindu, June 6, 2013 A team of youngsters silently carry out an organic food revolution in the outskirts of our city through their venture Nallakeerai. Akila Kannadasan reports Two young men walked door-to-door selling keerai (greens) one morning in … Read more

Commemorating forced tribal migration 175 years ago: The Trail of the Tears remembered by Cherokees as “the place where they cried” – Tennessee

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This map shows the forced paths of removal for several tribes of Indians. (Image: “Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 4: History of Indian-White Relations,” Wikipedia) This year marks the 175th anniversary of the Trail of the Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokee people and other tribes from their homelands in the Southeast to Indian … Read more

Seminar on the issue of trans-border Asia’s trans-border communities: Struggling to preserve their social and cultural characteristics – National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation

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Ipsita Pati, The Hindu, Kolkata, February 24, 2013 Tribal groups have to relocate themselves to create new identities or merge with bigger nations as an adaptive strategy to preserve their inherited social and cultural characteristics, said National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation director Professor Prithivish Nag here on Saturday. He was speaking on the struggles and … Read more

Conference on unrecognized languages: Bhasha Research Centre – Gujarat

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The Indian Express, Vadodara, Thu Feb 18 2010 Come March, and the city’s linguistic diversity will increase manifold, though for a few days. […] People speaking as many as 250 languages, which are not recognised by the Indian constitution, will come together at a conference to be hosted by Vadodara-based Bhasha Research Centre from March … Read more