Art & Culture

The fresh paddy crop is celebrated with great cheer in the month of Shravan across large swathes of Odisha. In tribal-dominated Malkangiri though, it is celebrated with much pomp and show. Niroj Ranjan Misra tells us what the ‘Kumuda Nuakhai’ festival is all about

A Bhumija tribal, hailing from a big carpenter family, he has been instrumental in setting up the Odisha Cartoonists’ Academy. Niroj Ranjan Misra gets to know him closely

A Mass Communication teacher is ready with a first-of-its-kind ethnographic film on the Bathudi tribe, whose members claim themselves to be descendants of Balram and Subhadra (siblings of Lord Krishna). Options of its release on an OTT platform too are being explored, Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

A group of present and former employees of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited morphs into a band of tribals to portray on stage the simple indigenous lifestyle fraught with taboos and traditions. Niroj Ranjan Misra gets to know them

When evening draws in, they flock to this site to sink in the discourses and discussions on holy Bhagawata, the literary magnum opus penned by Atibadi Jagannath Das, one among Panchasakha, five saint-litterateurs of medieval Odisha, finds out Niroj Ranjan Misra

Nature and Hindu mythology have a cardinal influence on the folk heritage of Assam’s tribal communities. No wonder then that the north-eastern State is a folk connoisseur’s paradise, writes Proyashi Barua

New Delhi

'Love in 90s', the first-ever movie based on the Tagin community, one of the major tribes in the Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, brings the rich culture of the far North-eastern State to the national stage.

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A popular belief of both tribals and non-tribals in this part of the country has it that Lord Hanuman was born in the Anjan village of Gumla district of Jharkhand. This Ram Navami, celebrated to commemorate the birth of Lord Rama, Sudhir Kumar Mishra brings to you the [...]

Every year, for the past over six decades, the World Theatre Day is observed on 27th March. On this occasion, as Niroj Ranjan Misra profiles a group of tribal artistes earning accolades for its stage plays, he learns that the members are farmers, contract labourers and students who [...]

With the traditional dyeing system, an integral part of the textile tradition of the Karbi tribals, on the verge of extinction, an effort is on to raise awareness about the need to preserve the centuries-old tradition. Proyashi Barua finds out how