Video resources – external

Audio | Manasamangal song cycle of the snake goddess, Manasa: A tribal goddess appropriated into the Hindu pantheon – West Bengal & Bangladesh

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To listen, find “Manasamangal” on the Travelling Archive website, then click the play button (“Listen to a song from this session”) Visit the Travelling Archive website for a larger map and to view more images. The four recordings in this session come from an ongoing project on Manasamangal or the Song Cycle of the Snake Goddess, Manasa, which we have … Read more

Adivasi and related issues affecting indigenous peoples – United Nations

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In the end, it comes down to values […] We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the UN Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance and solidarity. – António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General Source: “About Us”, The United NationsAddress : https://www.un.org/en/about-usDate Visited: 5 August 2023

Music album and video by Santal village children and youths (DVD, CD): “Children see world around them differently” – West Bengal & Odisha

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The photos were taken by the students themselves. Now, we have produced two music albums (one video and another audio). All the photos and video clippings that are used in the album are also taken by the students and teachers of RSV School. The children started capturing their lives as soon as they learnt to … Read more

Video | Gumla’s Jharkhand Tribal Museum: An interactive approach to the culture, music and art of 32 tribes – Jharkhand

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Date Visited: 13 March 2024 […] Ranchi Jesuits are now [2012] working on a revamp of Gumla’s Jharkhand Tribal Museum, spending Rs 1 crore on a cultural corridor, a boutique store and a hall depicting evolution of tribal groups of the state. Jesuits led by Belgian priest Father P.P. Vaneffel had set up the museum … Read more

Video | Portraits of Dayamani Barla known as the “Iron Lady of Jharkhand”

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Ballad of Resistance is a video portrait of indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla, her perseverance and tireless fight against corporations and the state machinery. The film follows how she, from a humble background became one of the pioneering adivasi journalists of India and later a writer-activist. Her current leadership in the Anti Displacement … Read more