“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)
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Published on Feb 21, 2015 Song performed by the Santali folk group, Sange Bariyat, at Jagwar-2: Santal Literary Meet 2015, 14-15 February 2015, Johar HRD Centre, Dumka, Jharkhand, India Also listen to another Santali song in the traditional lagre rhythm that asks on YouTube: “Why are we forgetting our beautiful language and culture?” Courtesy: Dr Ivy Imogene Hansdak … Read more
The world’s most important contemporary food movement Phrang Roy, coordinator of the Indigenous Partnership for Agro-biodiversity and Food Sovereignty, talks of how Slow Food began as the dream of a few people. “The reality is food is political. Slow Food’s beginning was for consumers in urban centres. They then realised this is not possible without … Read more
Eind is a popular festival of the Munda tribal community in Jharkhand. Community Correspondent Warles Surin shows the celebrations and tells the history of the festival. Community Correspondents come from marginalised communities in India and produce videos on unreported stories. These stories are ’news by those who live it.’ They give the hyperlocal context to … Read more
Ratha Duria from Rishabh Raghavan on Vimeo. Ratha Duria discusses his solar energy run kiosk in Gunpur, Kalahandi, Orissa and the need for such interventions. “We looked at a few solutions that would be cost effective and less effort to access these simple services [i.e. photo copying and taking photographs for identity cards] run on solar and in … Read more
Mlinda’ s Bony Tarafder and Champ Tudu tell the success story of a remote Santal rural community in Purulia District of West Bengal: about the new possibilities that came with access to lighting for the first time, health services and sanitation. A film by Ruchir Saraf for milaap.org • Milaap.org is a new way of doing good. Giving loans to the communities … Read more