Category Archives: Seasons and festivals

Slideshow | Celebrating the Adibasi Baha Parab Flower festival 2013 – West Bengal

Posted on 06/05/2013 by website administrator

Photos: courtesy Boro Baski, Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust © 2013 About three thousand people from several villages took part in this year’s Santal flower festival celebrations. The Ashadullapur Gramin Silpa & Sastha Bidhan Kendra, the crafts training centre founded by Sanyasi Lohar … Continue reading →

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Documentation of tribal music of India by Bhasha and Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh – Gujarat

Posted on 28/04/2013 by website administrator

Times of India, Nov 6, 2011 VADODARA: Now, you will be able to peep into the life of tribals and even hum some of their songs. The Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BRPC), which has taken up a project for … Continue reading →

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Our trip to the Adivasi festival in Ranchi: School blog about an excursion from the Nilgiri mountains of Tamil Nadu to Jharkhand in central India

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

[...] This week, our blog is coming to you from the students of Class 9. [...] In order, you can see (back row left-right) Tariq (one of our supervisors), Srudilaya, Prasad, Mridul, Priya (one of our teachers), then (front row … Continue reading →

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Shivaratri celebrations by the Kota community in the Nilgiri mountains – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 04/04/2013 by website administrator

View a video and two slideshows taken during Shivaratri, the main annual festival celebtrated by the Kota community Video | Kota women’s dance Video | Kota dance Slideshow | Kota dance and music Slideshow | Kota game More videos, slideshows and background information provided … Continue reading →

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Interview with Richard K. Wolf on his study titled “The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India”

Posted on 26/03/2013 by website administrator

Excerpt from an interview with Richard K. Wolf, author of an award-winning study of Kota culture: The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India (Permanent Black, Delhi 2005 ISBN 81-7824-126-9) and University of Illinois … Continue reading →

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Flower festival ‘Baha Parab’: celebration on 24th March 2013 at Ghosaldanga – West Bengal

Posted on 19/03/2013 by website administrator

  A glimpse of Baha Parab 2012 This year Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust is celebrating its traditional and religious festival ‘Baha Parab’ (flower festival) on 24th March 2013 at Ghosaldanga. The day-night festival will be observed with religious rituals by … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Inauguration of new Hostel facilities for Santal school children by Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati – West Bengal

Posted on 12/03/2013 by website administrator

Photos: courtesy Boro Baski, Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust © 2012 On 9th December 2012 Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta, Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, inaugurated the new girls’ hostel at the Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram (RSV) school in Ghosaldanga. Senior hostel students performed a traditional Santal dance. The … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Two day tribal Youth Leadership Training Camp at Johar, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) Dumka – Jharkhand

Posted on 08/03/2013 by website administrator

Photos: courtesy Boro Baski, Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust © 2013 The two day tribal Youth Leadership Training Camp ended with a very high note at Johar, Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) Dumka, Jharkhand. The camp was organised by Fr. Soloman sj, Director, … Continue reading →

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Video | 2012 tribal festival at the Central University of Jharkhand campus

Posted on 11/02/2013 by website administrator
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International Mountain Day: “Celebrating Mountain Life” – United Nations

Posted on 09/02/2013 by website administrator

Mountains are home to 12% of the world’s population. Sustainable mountain development is key to improve the livelihood of these often poor and isolated people.  UN Photo/Kibae Park On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Mountains, the … Continue reading →

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Mountain ecosystems also needed by urbanized areas: International Mountain Day observed with kaani tribal community – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 09/02/2013 by website administrator

International Mountain Day was observed by Tribal Foundation at Maraamalai Tribal Settlement in the Western Ghats by the Tribal Foundation on December 11. Addressing the indigenous people S S Davidson, environmental educator said that, mountains were crucial to life. Whether … Continue reading →

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Durua, Bhumia, Gadaba and Kondh women receive respect from men for their inherent strength to lead the family and community forward

Posted on 06/02/2013 by website administrator

Ch. Santakar, The Hindu, KORAPUT, January 1, 2013 Women in tribal communities of Koraput district were safe for the well acknowledged traditional guidelines of life being adhered to by one and all including the young and old in the community, Paresh … Continue reading →

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Report on JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013 – Jharkhand

Posted on 01/02/2013 by website administrator

JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013: Santal Onolia Helmel 2013 A Report The first Santal Literary Meet – in Santali named “JAGWAR: Santal Onolia Helmel” – was held at the Johar HRD Centre, Dumka, Jharkhand, on 23-24 January 2013. It began … Continue reading →

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‘Indigenous Voice: Mapping India’s Folk and Tribal Literature’ at World Book Fair 4-10 February 2013 – New Delhi

Posted on 12/01/2013 by website administrator

The twenty first New Delhi World Book Fair is being organised by the National Book Trust on the theme of ‘Indigenous Voice: Mapping India’s Folk andTribal Literature’. The Fair will be organized from 4th to 10th February 2013 at Pragati Maidan, … Continue reading →

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JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013 (23-24 January): Johar HRD Centre, Dumka – Jharkhand

Posted on 12/01/2013 by website administrator

View a slideshow Press coverage Report SANTAL ONOLIA HELMEL 2013 Introduction: For centuries, a large proportion of India’s rich literary heritage was conserved in oral form in the tribal/ indigenous/ adivasi languages of India. After these tribal languages were reduced … Continue reading →

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Garo winter harvest festival: creating cultural awareness, generating employment – Meghalaya

Posted on 11/01/2013 by website administrator

PHEROZE L. VINCENT, The Hindu, November 24, 2012 View the slideshow by Pheroze L. Vincent here >> The Garo tribe of Western Meghalaya celebrates the winter harvest with a three-day festival. Pheroze L. Vincent watches the Garos climb oiled poles, burst into … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Santal village life – West Bengal

Posted on 06/01/2013 by website administrator

Impressions of village life, a school visit and the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Vidyashram School. Guides: Santal educators Boro Baski and Sona Murmu. Photographs by Ludwig Pesch © 2012 Related posts Teaching Santal children by Boro Baski Santal village life … Continue reading →

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Bhubaneswar hosted the first annual national tribal dance – Odisha (Orissa)

Posted on 06/01/2013 by website administrator

Shyamhari Chakra, The Hindu, BHUBANESWAR, December 12, 2012 Adding further excitement to the festive fervour of the State in December – better known as the festival season in Odisha – two major dance festivals kicked off in and around the capital … Continue reading →

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The Nehru Centenary Tribal Museum in Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh

Posted on 31/12/2012 by website administrator

NIVEDITA N., The Hindu, December 31, 2012 The museum brings together culture, lifestyle, customs and beliefs of the various tribes hailing from different districts of Andhra Pradesh. Some of the tribes represented here are Kondareddi, Bagata and Hill Reddi. The tribes … Continue reading →

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Nomadic and semi nomadic tribes urged to address problems and issues and through their own voice – Rajasthan

Posted on 20/12/2012 by website administrator

The Times of India, Jaipur, 1 September 2012 JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday announced that his government is setting up a separate board for inclusive growth of de-notified, nomadic and semi nomadic tribes in the state. Addressing a … Continue reading →

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Traditional dress, practices and festivals refashioned – Arunachal Pradesh

Posted on 20/12/2012 by website administrator

Arunachal Pradesh is home to about twenty-five separate tribes and as many languages/dialects in the Tibeto-Burman family. (Despite the descriptive inadequacies of the term ‘tribal’, the alternatives are equally imprecise; ‘tribal’ is a politicised category all over India [Beteille 1991], … Continue reading →

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Use of the body to communicate and tell stories – The National Museum of the American Indian in New York

Posted on 10/12/2012 by website administrator

October 6, 2012–October 8, 2017 The National Museum of the American Indian in New York Consistent across time and cultures is the use of the body to communicate and express—to tell stories, participate in the cycles of nature, mourn, pray, … Continue reading →

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Video | Vayali Folklore Group – Nepal Film Fest documentary

Posted on 18/11/2012 by website administrator
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The dance went on: Adivasi self-assertion and networking during tribal cultural festival in Ranchi – Jharkhand

Posted on 16/11/2012 by website administrator

Mari Marcel Thekaekara (text and photo), The New Internationalist, 13 November 2012 Watching tribal dancing live and up close is a hugely different experience from watching it on telly. For the 40-strong Gudalur adivasi group, recently invited by the Central … Continue reading →

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Video | Chenchu hunter-gatherers – Andhra Pradesh

Posted on 12/11/2012 by website administrator

Video by by Sathya Mohan The Chenchus are one of the last remaining tribes in India. They live a hand-to-mouth existence in the forest but attempts to integrate them in society have failed. For centuries, the Chenchus have survived as … Continue reading →

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