Category Archives: Globalization

Collective of tribals successful in initiating and maintaining a sustainable commercial cultivation of coffee – Andhra Pradesh

G. S. SUBRAHMANYAM, The Hindu, VISAKHAPATNAM, January 29, 2013 Coop society creates steady source of income for over 11,000 farmers The ability of the collective of tribals in Paderu Agency area in initiating and maintaining a sustainable commercial cultivation of coffee … Continue reading

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Call for providing children’s literature in Jharkhand’s endangered tribal languages: Sahitya Akademi’s seminar – Ranchi

The Telegraph, Kolkata, November 28 , 2012 Eight languages spoken by tribals of Jharkhand are among the world’s endangered list of 1,763, including 171 in India, according to a Unesco report. In this context, Sahitya Akademi, which hosted a two-day … Continue reading

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Tip | Watch an educational video on ecowalkthetalk.com: Appreciating and sustaining India’s biodiversity

To view video contents on ecology and more, select a topic under Multimedia Biodiversity Development Sustainable agriculture and more … Eco WALK the Talk is a non-profit environmental website with an Asia focus. We cover eco news and insights, offer green … Continue reading

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There you go! – Survival’s cartoon book

There you go! – Survival’s cartoon book – takes a satirical swipe at the ‘development’ of tribal peoples. With beautiful illustrations and wry humour, Oren Ginzburg tells the story of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of … Continue reading

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Akshara experiment and book – The wealth of India’s crafts combined with linguistic diversity

View the Caravan Magazine’s slideshow with explanations and picture credit here >> By Devina Dutt,  Caravan Magazine,  1 February 2013 [...] The Akshara experiment, carried out over five years, brought together 58 artists in crafts, textiles and traditional paintings on a journey … Continue reading

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Tip | Tribal culture worldwide: Search newint.org

To read the regular newint.org blog on developments in India by Mari Marcel Thekaekara (e.g. Adivasi culture, environmental issues and women’s rights) and others (i.e. tribal culture worldwide), search here: http://newint.org/themes/society/indigenous-peoples/>> Related posts Democracy Mari Thekaekara (on this website) Misconceptions Modernity Tribal culture worldwide … Continue reading

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Slideshow | World Forestry Day school celebration in the western ghats of Kanyakumari district – Tamil Nadu

Photos: courtesy S S Davidson © 2013 Tribal Foundation (Nagercoil) The Hindu, NAGERCOIL, March 22, 2013 Forests were the lungs of the earth and global warming and its attendant climate change needed to be dealt with in this context, said environmental educator … Continue reading

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Mahatma Gandhi on industrialism and his appeal to capitalists of India to become “trustees to the welfare of the masses” – Young India 1928

Capitalists Of India Wardha Before 20 December 1928 GOD FORBID that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom (England) is today keeping the world in chains. … Continue reading

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“Ayurveda has evolved from the folk medicine” – Book review: Medicine and Life Sciences in India

Review: Medicine and Life Sciences in India. Subbarayappa, B. V. (Ed.) 2001. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Pp: 771. Price not given. by D.P. Agrawal & Lalit Tiwari Of late the West is veering round to the Alternative … Continue reading

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Ensuring continued access to Indian medicine poorer sections of Indian society – Traditional Knowledge And World Intellectual Property Law

Jennifer Anne Blaylock Rina Elster Pantalony Copyright, Legal Issues and Policy H72.1804 December 16, 2008 Traditional Knowledge And World Intellectual Property Law [...] TK [Traditional Knowledge] policies ideally benefit indigenous populations by protecting their specialized knowledge from exploitation by third parties. … Continue reading

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Tribal languages face extinction as “young people want to be part of the mainstream culture” – Uttarakhand

Tip: for more information on the work of the “Central Institute of Indian Languages” and “Bharat Bhasha Vikas Yojana” mentioned in this article, use Google custom search – Indian press coverage of tribal culture; click Search select periodicals >> Excerpts from The Telegraph, … Continue reading

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Collective Inquiry helps educators to build shared knowledge and learn together – Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning

Collective inquiry is the process by which educators build shared knowledge and learn together. It’s also a common practice that high-performing school systems around the world use to create and sustain a strong teaching profession. Collective inquiry helps build a shared … Continue reading

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Realising the importance of experiencing things at a small, local level: South Asian stories from Californian streets – USA

ZAHIR JANMOHAMED, The Hindu, February 2, 2013 A radical walking tour in Berkeley shows that South Asian activism in the U.S. pre-dated 9/11. Anirvan Chatterjee stops at the corner of Dwight and Telegraph in Berkeley, opens up a four-inch binder … Continue reading

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Study on ethno-medical practitioners among the Kani community: Indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants is gaining recognition worldwide – Tamil Nadu

The hill tribal and rural communities of Kanyakumari district are heavily dependent on wild plants for their primary health care and treatment of diseases. Read the entire article here (PDF) >> International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ISSN- 0975-1491 Vol 4, … Continue reading

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Mountain biodiversity and climate change – EnviroNews Archives

India ranks 10th in the list of most forested nations in the world with 76.87 million ha of forest and tree cover. Like other forests of the world, our forests also provide critical ecosystem goods and services. However, the significant … Continue reading

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The moral standard of state and society: T.G. Narayanan Memorial Lecture on Social Deprivation – Gujarat

T.G. Narayanan Memorial Lecture on Social Deprivation Read the entire lecture here >> The Hindu, January 19, 2013 Chennai, 18 January 2013 The moral standard of state and society can be deduced from the way people are treated who are … Continue reading

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Elephants and tigers – recurring motifs and issues for India’s tribal communities

The tribals I was told about are elephant people. As far back as any one can remember, they have taken care of elephants. They understand elephants as no one else does. They grow up with elephants, and the elephants with … Continue reading

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Adivasi and related issues affecting indigenous peoples – United Nations

Search the website of the UN here (keyword: ”Adivasi”) Related posts: United Nations, Unesco, Government of India About the United Nations The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, … Continue reading

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“Let us ensure that development for some is not to the detriment of the human rights of others”: statement on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 2011 – United Nations

Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay for 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People: “As we celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People this year, many of the estimated 370 million … Continue reading

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The Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) – growing into the world’s most important contemporary food movement

Saving a village with a millet. Photo: Shonali Muthalaly – The Hindu – view more photos in the online edition >> SHONALI MUTHALALY, The Hindu, November 10, 2012 With Slow Food, the world’s most important contemporary food movement created to … Continue reading

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Commercial varieties of trees in tribal forest areas must not replace plants on which the Adivasis are dependent

The Hindu, HYDERABAD, October 9, 2012 Indu Netam, an Adivasi leader from Chhattisgarh, on Monday, slammed the plantation of eucalyptus and other commercial varieties of trees in tribal forest areas under Green India Mission (GIM), saying this was impacting their livelihoods. … Continue reading

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Down To Earth – science and environment fortnightly published by India’s Society for Environmental Communications

Search tips Enter a keyword like “tribal”, “indigenous” and ”adivasi” on the Down To Earch website for up-to-date information on a topic of special interest to you More search tips for this website In May 1992, the Society for Environmental Communications started India’s only … Continue reading

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Convention on Biological Diversity to ‘integrate traditional knowledge and practices of indigenous and local communities relevant for conservation of biodiversity” in 2020

Latha Jishnu, Down to Earth, Date: Oct 15, 2012 The Convention on Biological Diversity, 20 years on, is still struggling to stem the precipitous decline in biodiversity. After missing the 2010 target of reducing biodiversity loss, it is now pulling out all … Continue reading

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Award winning tribal documentary – Thane / New York

Indian Express, Thane, Mon Aug 13 2012 A documentary film made by fifteen year-old Jayshree Janu Kharpade, a tribal girl from Wada taluka of Thane district, has won an award in the Asian American Film Festival held in New York recently. … Continue reading

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Tiger conservation and tourism – its impact on the people in and around the tiger reserves

Infochange News & Features, August 2012 The Supreme Court order to ban tourism in core tiger reserves, and decisions to shoot poachers at sight find favour with some conservationists, the middle class and media. But what will their impact be … Continue reading

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