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Lending a voice to the nation’s indigenous population: Adivaani, a trust that publishes books written by Adivasis – Jharkhand and West Bengal

Garima Mishra, Indian Express New Delhi, Sat Apr 27 2013 | Read the full article >> “Why don’t we have an Adivasi voice?”, “Why don’t we have a ‘for and by’ Adivasi publishing house?”, “Where is the authentic Adivasi narrative?” … Continue reading

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Egalitarian culture leaves Adivasi youth unprepared for competition: On the challenge of balancing tradition and modernity

Boro Baski is a teacher and social worker with the community-based organisation Ghosaldanga Adibasi Seva Sangha in West Bengal. Read the entire article >> Boro Baski, 13/05/2013 The young generation of India’s tribal communities is struggling with different problems than the college-educated urban … Continue reading

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Video | Hul Sengel: The Spirit of the Santal Revolution (1855) – Jharkhand

Watch a film produced on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Santal Hul ["Santal revolution" of 1855-56] >> Director and Producer: Daniel J. Rycroft, University of East Anglia Co-Director: Joy Raj Tudu (Indian Confederation of Indigenous & Tribal People) Co-Producer: D. … Continue reading

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Tip | Publication: The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi

edited by Daniel J Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta (2011) Source: The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi – Google Books Address : http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z_Pe0z1ta_8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Date Visited: Mon May 13 2013 18:24:39 GMT+0200 (CEST) Related posts Adivasi Colonial policies History Literature and bibliographies … Continue reading

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

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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Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) are the largest tribal population in the world – World Directory of Minorities

From “Adivasis of India” (dated 2008) | Read the full article >> Alternative names: Scheduled Tribes, various tribal names e.g. Santhals, Hos, Mundas, Oraons, Gonds, Konds, Bhils etc. [...] The Adivasis (original inhabitants) is the collective name used for the many tribal … Continue reading

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Adivaani Trust: Kolkata-based publishing house for Adivasi literature – West Bengal

Call for Support: Adivaani—Publishing the Adivasi Voice Adivaani is a new publishing house from Kolkata, which describes itself as a response to the  endangered Adivasi cultural and historical heritage. For long, mainstre am publishing in India has neglected the documentation and publication … Continue reading

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Adivaani “the Adivasi voice”: A publishing house for India’s indigenous population – West Bengal

June 12, 2012 Who is adivaani Ruby Hembrom I believe not everyone is meant to do just one thing in life, I certainly am not. My 8 years of work experience in the Legal field, the Service Industry, the Social Development … Continue reading

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

  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

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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Village artist Sanyasi Lohar – West Bengal

“Sanyasi Lohar, though not a Santal himself but spending his life in a Santal village, Bishnubati, has developed naïve Santali designs into a sophisticated art-form” – Martin Kämpchen Photo: Baul singer – terra cotta mural by Sanyasi Lohar © 2013 Slideshow | … Continue reading

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Slideshow | Pottery workshop activities in Ashadullapur – West Bengal

A selection of pieces created during a village training programme started in October 2012 and continued in spring 2013. Photos: courtesy Sanyasi Lohar © 2013 Slideshow | Pottery produced at Ashadullapur – West Bengal >>

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On the experience of translating Rabindranath Tagore’s Raktakarabi into Santali: Lecture by Boro Baski – West Bengal

Left to right: Prof. Dhoneswar Majhi, Dr. Boro Baski, Subhas Mukherjee (research scholar Visva-Bharati), his wife, Mrs. Chandni Mukherjee (high school teacher) and Mrs. Didimoni Hansda (high school teacher) 

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

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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Tip | A Digital Library of Language Relationships: searchable database and maps – multitree.org

Search information and create a customized map on multitree.org/search (e.g. Gondi, Santali) >> A customized map showing the distribution of the Santali created on multitree.org MultiTree is a project of The LINGUIST List to create and present a digital library of scholarly hypotheses about language relationships and … Continue reading

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Sensitive documentary about the Adivasis: “Ab Aur Waqt Nahin” (Running Out of Time) by Abhijay Karlekar – Jharkhand

Frontline, Volume 23 – Issue 13, Jul. 01-14, 2006 View more photos here >> UNTIL the 1990s, when the movement for a separate state gathered momentum, Jharkhand was not in the public mind. Carved out of southern Bihar, it came into … Continue reading

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“The Experience of Translating Raktakarabi”: Special Lecture at Visva-Bharati by Dr. Boro Baski – West Bengal

VISVA-BHARATI Department of Santhali and Patha Chakra jointly present Special Lecture by Dr. Boro Baski Principal, Rolfschoembs Vidyashram (A Non formal Santhal School) On “The Experience of Translating Raktakarabi” 23 February 2013, Saturday,  at 4.00 p.m at the Central Library … Continue reading

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Report on JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013 – Jharkhand

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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Slideshow | JAGWAR Santal Literary Meet 2013

Photos: courtesy © Manoj Hembrom 2013 More information >>

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Workshop report: Modernisation rooted in Santal Heritage – West Bengal

Slideshow >> MODERNISATION ROOTED IN SANTAL HERITAGE A workshop for the youth of Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adivasi Trust A two-day workshop for the youth from various villages around Ghosaldanga and Bishnubati was held on 19th and 20th of December 2012 at … Continue reading

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What is my identity…? – Santal story by Sunder Manoj Hembrom

Oprom do cet’ tin…? What is my identity…? Joidhon Soren lies, limp and listless, on a railway hospital bed. It is one of the big hospitals of the industrial town of Mahuapara, so his condition is clearly serious. He is … Continue reading

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

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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Slideshow | Santal village life – West Bengal

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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Slideshow | ‘Santal youth in the midst of Tradition and Modernity’: a workshop in Bishnubati – West Bengal

The workshop conducted on 19th & 20th December 2012 was attended by 30 Santal youths from four different villages. Fr. D.M. Solomon S.J. (HRD Centre in Dumka, Jharkhand) was the principal speaker. He coordinated the sessions in a lively and participatory manner. Focusing on … Continue reading

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Facilitating self-expression of cultural heritage among Santal pupils through computer and video training – West Bengal

The Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram (RSV) school in Ghosaldanga is offering computer and video training to its staff and students. Building on 25 years of experience with literacy programmes, community service and health care, these workshops are part of a larger effort: fostering … Continue reading

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