The Todas of Bikkapathimund village in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu collect honey in the gentlest of ways, and once every 12 years await the bloom of the kurinji flowers, from which the bees make a special honey
Jayamma Belliah, an Adivasi from Ananjihundi village in Karnataka, documents her life in a forest with a camera. An outstanding photo essay on PARI to commemorate March 8, International Women's Day
The Apatani are a prominent tribe of Ziro valley in Arunachal Pradesh. This photo essay features the community's signature practices of construction, agriculture and cuisine
In the seven audio songs here, Adivasi girls from a residential school in Farsegarh village of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district sing of trees and fields, friends and families, of dressing up and dancing, and the tricolour
The residents of Rampura, a small village in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, have been asked to move. But, they say, with no allocation of alternative land, where will we go?
A wood-gatherer at work in a mountain-top forest in Hmuifang, Mizoram
During the harvest festival, Santal women in Chirchirya hamlet in Bihar sing about their way of life while men play the instruments, and there is a feast and some mahua as well
The Andhra Pradesh government has denied Scheduled Tribe certificates to the Naikpods in West Godavari and Krishna districts, jeopardising their access to education, welfare schemes and political processes
Among the Kota of the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, only women can practise pottery. The craft’s strong religious roots have kept it alive, and attempts to commercialise or modify the traditional products are being debated
Many Adivasis have lost their land in Uttarakhand. But Kamla Devi of Pindari village and Mangola Singh of Nandpur are resisting usury, fraud and gender prejudice to get back their farmland and secure their rights
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