“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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IS there such a thing as Gandhi’s legacy?For fifty years we have enshrined him. We must now enfranchise him again.by Gopalkrishna Gandhi [1997] IS there such a thing as Gandhi’s legacy?There is, well, the name; a legacy for some. Legacy of a kind. […] HOW is that Gandhi, that Gandhi legacy, to be regenerated? Not … Read more
by Sarah W | Read her full blog here >> If you were to ask people to describe “Japan” or “the Japanese” in one word, there’s a pretty good chance that you’d hear one word over and over again: “homogeneous.” The Japanese have long prided themselves on the homogeneity of their nation, and it sure is easy … Read more
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
Source: golden orb web spider (nephila spp.): info fact sheets, photosAddress: http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/inverts/nephila.htmDate Visited: Mon Apr 25 2016 19:06:39 GMT+0200 (CEST) Giant wood spider (Nephila pilipes), note the tiny male dwarfed by the massive female Trip: ThattekadCamp: Periyar River LodgeDates: 14-16 Nov ‘14 Source: November | 2014 | Wilderness NotesAddress: https://badrikrishnan.com/2014/11/Date Visited: 5 December 2021 Source: … Read more
A digital typeface based on Godna tattoo art from Chhattisgarh, and designed in collaboration with three tribal women (Ram Keli, Sunita and Sumitra) from the marginalised in partnership with Dutch designers, origanisations and educational institutions | Continue reading: https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=21844