Looking at the state of India’s museums – from “A Museum Evangelist’s Persuasions” by Rama Lakshmi

Why Museums? […] You need qualifications for it? Isn’t it just about arranging things in glass cases inside a room? Going by the state of museums in India, these responses are not unreasonable. Cobwebbed galleries, turgid two-line labels, ponderous text panels, indifferent staff and curators who refuse to descend from their summit of impenetrable expertise … Read more

Revitalizing community based health care system: the Rashtriya Guni Mission – Rajasthan

15 DAY EDUCATION PROGRAM (COURSE) TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINES Rastriya Guni Mission (RGM) trust has been working in the domain of Traditional System of Medicine (TSM) since past 13 years. In order to fulfill its mandate of conservation and promotion of TSM, the trust has discovered and identified more than 1300 gunis in 8 states … Read more

Online exhibition – The National Consortium of Tribal Arts and Culture

The National Consortium of Tribal Arts and Culture created by Bhasha is the single largest digital resource for adivasi art expression in India. AddressNational Consortium of Tribal Arts and CultureC/o Bhasha Research and Publication Center62 Shreenathdham DuplexBehind Dinesh Mills AkotaVadodara 390 007Ph: 0265 2331968Email:nctac@bhasharesearch.org.inwww.bhashaarchival.org

Tip | Explore the video resources produced by Videovolunteers: “IndiaUnheard links rural communities”

Video Volunteers – YouTube channel The tribal girl Almelu was the first girl to complete her higher secondary in her Irula tribal community in the village of Gunavakam. […] Almelu cannot wait to finish her course and she knows exactly what she is going to do once she turns a certified teacher. She sees herself returning … Read more

Unique lifestyle and culture of Soligas in the forest area near Chamarajanagar – Karnataka

Deccan Herald, Chamarajanagar, Mar 21, 2012 MP R Dhruvanarayan stressed the Centre that soligas living in the forest area coming under Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency limits should be included in the list of adivasi tribe and provide all the benefits due to them. […] Those groups belonging to jenu kuruba and koragas have been included … Read more