“Everything I knew, poetry, music, games, it was all in Santali. This school gave me a sense of community and I hope my students get to feel the same. […] When I teach my students, I try to stress that we need to remember that the central ideas about Santali culture is dance, music and poetry.” – Santal teacher Pada Murmu interviewed by Nandini Nair (OPEN Magazine, 13 January 2017)
https://openthemagazine.com/features/dispatch/santali-talking-time/
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=21581
Santali is one of India’s many Adivasi languages. Today, seven different alphabets are used to write in it. Some argue that this great variety does not help the community’s development. | Read the full article by Boro Baski (3,3 MB) >> Among South Asian Adivasis, we are the largest homogenous group. More than 10 million … Read more
Source: “Magical idiom” by Vaiju Naravane, The Hindu : Arts / Magazine, 10 April 2010 Address : http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article391448.eceDate Visited: Sat Nov 26 2011 18:44:30 GMT+0100 (CET) More about the communities named here: Ayyanar | Gond | Khond | Rathwa | Santal | Sarguja | Warli
“[I]t is some of the basic values and ideology imbibed in the traditional tribal socio-cultural milieus that should have been emulated and promoted amongst the non-tribal mainstream, not, as has been going on, the other way round.” – Arup Maharatna (Professor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune), in Who Is Civilised?’: In Praise of Tribal … Read more
Here is a presentation on a school project that employed artists, local arts and cultural practices, and community knowledge systems to enhance arts education for its students. The Malenadu Educational and Rural Development Society (MEARDS), a registered, not-for-profit organisation working in the Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka, received a grant from IFA in 2018. This … Read more