“Books best companions of kids in tribal settlements” – Tamil Nadu

When children in cities were whiling the lockdown period away in electronic gadgets and on social media, close to 50 children in tribal settlements in Anamalai taluk had spent it in a useful manner – reading books. Thanks to the Centre for Justice and Peace, an NGO, that distributed more than 200 books to the … Read more

Learn more about tribal communities in Jharkhand

eBook | Search a reservoir of Indian theses: Shodhganga, “a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses – Open access

e.g. search for “Shodhganga scheduled tribe”, “Shodhganga tribal language”, “Shodhganga Adivasi”, “Shodhganga Andaman”, “Shodhganga Santal”, “Shodhganga tribal education”, “Shodhganga forest rights”, “Shodhganga Nilgiri tribe”, “Shodhganga vulnerable tribal group” in the above search field: Example Searching for “Adivasi Shodhganga” in the above search window yields the following result (among others): Title: Adivasi women in Eastern India … Read more

Appreciation for paintings from Maharashtra’s ‘Pinguli Chitragathi’ and Rajasthan’s ‘Mewar School’: An astonishing variety of local art

Source: Art from rural India finds an urban home by Meena Verma, founder-director of ‘Arts of the Earth’ gallery in Lado Sarai (Delhi), Deccan Herald, 3 July 2012Address: https://www.deccanherald.com/content/261313/art-rural-india-finds-urban.htmlDate Visited: 21 November 2024 The splendours of Sindhudurg Radhika P. Nair, Outlook Traveller, August 14, 2014 The Pinguli Art Complex, located near Kudal, showcases the art works … Read more

Teaching Santal children by Boro Baski

Though India is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, our small cluster of two Adivasi villages in West Bengal has not suffered infections yet. We do feel the economic impacts of course. […] Farm work has continued quietly. To many Santals, one lesson of the pandemic has been that agriculture provides the safest livelihoods. It … Read more