“A great deal of things could be learnt from their culture.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of free India, quoted in The Tribal Culture of India by Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi and Binay Kumar Rai
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Baha The Baha Parab is the Flower Festival of the Santals, celebrated in the beginning of spring. The ritual observed revolves around man’s communion with nature and the celebration of beauty. The Naike (Santal priest) and other villagers offer a Sal flower to every family of the village. A Santal woman receives flowers in … Read more
Uploaded on Nov 15, 2009 This video is an introduction to the Oral History Project by Tamarind Tree, Dahanu. It provides a glimpse of the oral folklore, myths and legends of the Warlis and Konkanas – tribal communities residing in western India. Source: ▶ Oral History – YouTube Address : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w_2vncBMNM&list=PL6F8FF0BA53B5F2D9 Date Visited: Mon Feb … Read more
HARSHINI VAKKALANKA, The Hindu, November 4, 2013 | Read the full article here >> It is as though a piece of their world has been brought onto the walls, mounted onto wooden boards to be taken away to the homes of people whose lives are so vastly different from those in the Warli and Madhubani regions of … Read more
“Memory is a tricky thing: it picks and chooses what to preserve and what to discard. Sometimes it is the trivial that triggers the process of remembering a great loss.” – Temsula Ao, These Hills Called Home Concept Note Last year, Jagwar-1: Santal Literary Meet 2013 had been held with the objective of bringing … Read more
Imagine yourself as a child attending school only to realize that you cannot understand anything said by your teachers (and vice-versa) … Yet this has long been the unenviable situation faced by “tribal” children all over the world including India, a country whose constitution protects the right of children to learn through their mother tongue: Across the region, … Read more