Modernity

“Our vital traditions are being lost. They are bing ‘modernized’.” – A tribal mother’s concerns (interviewed for Survival International) in “Factory Schools: Destroying Indigenous People in the Name of Education” (accessed 28 March 2021)
https://www.survivalinternational.org/about/factoryschools
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=34514

Addressing a scarcity of doctors and promoting variety of traditional healthcare practices among ethnic groups and tribes: North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda & Homeopathy – Meghalaya

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Aims and Objectives The main aims and objectives of NEIAH, Shillong • To declare an institution of international standard and a center of excellence in education and research for under graduation, post graduation, post doctorate for aspiring candidates of India and abroad to undergo education and research in Ayurveda and Homoeopathy | Learn more >> The … Read more

eBook | “Learning to love the city in Northeast India” – IIAS Newsletter

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The Newsletter 77 Summer 2017 Learning to love the city in Northeast India The rapid urbanization of India’s Northeast frontier1 is one of the most crucial transformations the area has witnessed, yet it remains relatively understudied. In just a few decades a large number of the inhabitants have become urban dwellers in one of the frontier … Read more

Video | Recommended by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (Government of India)

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Video Gallery Source: Video Gallery | National Commission for Scheduled TribesAddress: http://www.ncst.gov.in/video-gallery/9Date Visited: Mon Apr 10 2017 12:46:04 GMT+0200 (CEST)

The world’s largest rural broadband connectivity project through optical fibre cable: Idukki first district – Kerala

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Idukki becomes first district in India to get high-speed rural broadband connectivity Down To Earth, M Suchitra, Tuesday 13 January 2015 | To read the full article, click here >>   ‘Our vision is to transform our country into a knowledge economy,’ communication minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said while inaugurating the network   National Optic Fibre Network will connect … Read more

Sharing a theology with ecology as the most important ethical guide for humans: The Asurs, a “Particularly vulnerable tribal group” – Jharkhand

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G.N. Devy, The Indian Express, 6 March 2016 | To read the full article, click here >> The term tribal defies any universal definition. Between the Maoris of New Zealand, the Aborigines of Australia and the Indigenous People of North America, there is a shared historical fact. They were all there before the colonial powers pushed them … Read more