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Tribal affairs
From The Hindu: Saturday, Dec 09, 2006
BEAUTIFUL STATE Chhat-tisgarh will be featured on the Discovery Channel Discovery Channel has produced a four-part programme on Chhattisgarh. Called Chhattisgarh: The Tribal Planet, the series will “uncover the mystical, traditional and spectacular Chhattisgarh”.
The first episode, Joining The Tribe, will cover the Bastar region and will also explore [...]
छत्तीसगढ़ में प्राप्त पांडुलिपियाँ
छत्तीसगढ़ में प्राप्त पांडुलिपियाँ
विभिन्न अखबारों से प्राप्त
जनसत्ता गरियाबन्द, 02-06-07
अनुविभाग मुख्यालय से 30 कि.मी. दूर ग्राम गोडलबाय निवासी बोधसिंह दीवान (80) के यहाँ से 300 वर्ष पुरानी पांडुलिपियाँ उड़िया भाषा मे हस्तलिखित तालपत्र 38 पृष्ठीय ज्योतिष रोग-ब्याधि सम्बन्धी विवरण और 70 पृष्टीय तालपत्र (कलंकी पुराण) उपलब्ध है. इसी तरह ग्राम पतोरा दादर से परमेश्वर सिंह [...]
छत्तीसगढ़ के संस्कृत कवि
छत्तीसगढ़ के संस्कृत कवि
श्री हरि ठाकुर
जनश्रुति के अनुसार वैदिक युग के महान ऋषि वशिष्ठ, अंगीरस, ऋग्ड़ी, और वाल्मिकी के छत्तीसगढ़ मे आश्रम थे. वे इस क्षेत्र मे केवल तपस्या के लिए ही नही, आर्यधर्म और संस्कृति के प्रचार के लिये भी आये और यहीं निवास करने लगे. ऋग्वेद वेदों में सबसे अधिक प्राचीन है. वशिष्ठ [...]
Naukar Ki Kameez/The Servant’s Shirt
Directed by Mani Kaul: An enigmatic drama about the strange twists and turns of the Indian class system, Naukar Ki Kameez/The Servant’s Shirt centers on a simple clerk and his wife. Through encounters with his co-workers, neighbors and nearly everyone else around him, the couple (like most people they know) jockey for economic and social [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IRON IS HOT ( Loha garam hai)
IRON IS HOT ( Loha garam hai) Is a story of how people survive with India’s fastest polluting� Sponge Iron Industry
This industry is relatively new. Staring with 3 plants in 1985, it has rapidly multiplied to 206 plants in 2005 and very soon the number will be 430, unofficial this figure is still higher.
These industries [...]
NOW A HERO, THEN A HERO
TEHELKA
JULY 14, 2007
Behind the story of Dr Binayak Sen is equally that of Shankar Guha Niyogi, his friend and inspiration, murdered in 1991. Anand Patwardhan pays tribute
(Dr. Binayak and Shankar Guha Niyogi’s daughter)
I first met Binayak Sen in 1986. Shankar Guha Niyogi, legendary leader of the Chhattisgarh Mukti [...]
आदिवासी लोक कथाओं को एनीमेशन के जरिए उकेरा विदेशी ने
साभार:जागरण
Sep 28, 02:05 am
रायपुर। छत्तीसगढ़-मध्यप्रदेश-उड़ीसा और महाराष्ट्र के आदिवासी ग्राम्य अंचलों की कथाओं को छोटी-छोटी एनीमेशन फिल्मों के माध्यम से बड़ा संदेश देने का संसार बुना है एक विदेशी महिला ने।
कल शाम रायपुर के मेसानिक लाज में द टालेस्ट स्टोरी काम्पटीशन नाम से हुए आयोजन में स्काटलैण्ड निवासी तारा डगलस की आदिवासी कथाओं [...]
India’s War in the Woods
The 78-kilometer road between Sukma and Konta is nearly deserted. Scores of villages, once bustling with tribal life, are now vacant. Across the rough orange and green terrain of the nearby forests, hundreds of other villages similarly have been abandoned. Tens of thousands of tribal people are simply gone.
This is not war-torn Afghanistan or Sudan. [...]
Mahua Memoirs
Mahua Memoirs
(Documentary, 82 minutes)
They live on lands where mineral treasures have lain
buried for centuries; treasures that have now become
the biggest source of their terror. Through their
stories and songs, Mahua Memoirs unfolds the life
visions and the struggles of the adivasis against the
mining that is mercilessly consuming their lands and
their lives.
Saloo, the bard and Thirku, the Baiga [...]
“India’s Hidden War”
A documentary film “India’s Hidden War” produced by reporter Sandra Jordan and Director James Brabazon was screened and left its images of deep wound and violation against the innocent tribal communities of Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh who used to live peacefully in their own world.Sandra and James traveled deep into the Indian jungle to expose [...]
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