TBI Heritage: Acoustic Traditional – Preserving Indigenous Tales, Myths and...
India is estimated to have about 635 indigenous communities. Each of these groups of people have a unique identity, with their very own brand of culture, traditions and folklore. Unfortunately, most of...
View ArticleTBI Photo Essay: The Hornbill Festival – A Visual Treat
The Hornbill Festival, held in the first week of December every year, is a marvelous riot of colour that shows off the rich fare of diverse cultures and traditional arts that is Nagaland. Here you can...
View ArticleTBI Inspirations: An Incredible Journey From Jharkhand To Spain For This...
For several days now, our readers have been pointing us to a remarkably inspiring story that was making waves on social media but had not received its due coverage in conventional media. As we prepared...
View ArticleTBI Specials: Young, special, on the ball and ripping apart the net in Spain
Many of you would have read our previous coverage of the Jharkhand tribal girls who won the third place at the Gasteiz Cup football tournament in Spain. Here we bring to you the complete story as...
View ArticleTBI Photo Journeys: The Golden Temple of Jejuri
Listen to the many folk tales, and see for yourself the myriad hues, besides the mounds of golden yellow turmeric, that mark the tribal town of Jejuri. Famed for its temple that promises marital bliss...
View ArticleSEWA Rural – Taking Development To The Poorest Of Poor In The Remotest Of...
When one lives in the city and enjoys excellent health care at one’s beck and call, it is difficult to appreciate the hardships suffered by the poor in remote locations of India. SEWA Rural is an...
View ArticleBuilding A School And Saving A Tribe – All In A Year’s Work!
In a remote corner of the country, children of the unique and endangered Toto tribe are waiting for their school to open. The building is ready and the classes are about to begin. The good samaritans...
View ArticleYou’ve Seen Warli Paintings Before. Now Get Ready To Visit The Warli Tribe &...
Don’t Miss: The Tarpa being played at the end of this article! Did my car slow down on its own near a house made of karvi sticks? Or did the muscle memory of my legs press on the brake ever so lightly?...
View ArticleFrom Building Bridges To Building Blood Banks, This Man Has Done It All!
Since his childhood, Saunak’s school art teacher fascinated not only him but the whole school. He was a multi-talented person. However, when Saunak met him years after he left school, he learnt other...
View ArticleThis Guy Left His High Paying IT Job To Teach Photography To Tribal Children
While some are busy working at a job that makes them a comfortable living, 29-year old Sandeep Viswanath quit his well paying IT job to pursue his passion for photography and opted to work with tribal...
View ArticleA Rape Victim Who Was Abandoned By Her Own Mother Is Now Chasing Her Dreams...
Sita was kidnapped, raped and thrown on a railway track. Abandoned by her own mother, she found a new life in a school which is empowering disadvantaged girls like her to dream big and start a fresh...
View ArticleIn Udaipur, This Ingenious Tribal Community Beats The Odds To Send Its Kids...
Crippling rains, lack of transport facilities and poverty are just a few issues that stop children from attending school regularly. This innovative tribal community is coming up with unique and...
View ArticleLessons on Survival from a Tribe that is Not Only Surviving but also Thriving
From fighting for their basic rights to getting their own state, here is how a matrilineal tribe survived. The Khasi-Jaintia-Garo have not only secured land rights but are now also covered in the Sixth...
View ArticleA Maternity Home Set up in an Odisha Village Delivers Safety and Good Health
Tribals are slowly embracing the maternity homes set up in Koraput district in Odisha. In a bid to convince expectant mothers in her village to shift into the maternity home that has come up near their...
View ArticleThese Adivasi Women Are Eliminating the Practice of Witch Hunting – One...
Fifty-five hundred tribal women from 100 villages in Gujarat came together to fight several social evils like witch hunting, using folk forms – dance, theatre and singing – to spread awareness about...
View ArticleBamboo Rakhis That Are Not Only Eco-Friendly but Also Feed Tribals in...
An indigenous innovation that challenges the cheap rakhis being dumped in the Indian market by the Chinese, these green bamboo rakhis fund a day’s meal for the tribals of Melghat. Aptly named ‘Shrushti...
View ArticleMeet the Artists Who Live Among the Baiga Tribals and Depict Their Rich...
The Baiga Trails, an art exhibition that will take place in Pune from November 24 to November 26, will bring to light the culture of the ancient tribal community of the Baigas through the work of two...
View ArticleThis Exciting Bengaluru Music Fest Will Feature Tribal Music and Exhibit Rare...
On November 26 and 27, Bengaluru residents will get to take in some music performances by tribal artistes and see an exhibition of rare tribal instruments at the Echoes of Earth music festival....
View ArticleTBI Blogs: Tribal Women from Odisha’s Kashipur Block Are Standing up against...
For many tribal women in Odisha’s Kashipur block in the Rayagada district, making and selling brooms is the primary source of income and livelihood. Exploited and taken advantage of, the women finally...
View ArticleWhy Odisha’s Tribal Women Are Returning to Their Natural Roots for Guidance...
India’s tribals often possess traditional knowledge that gets lost because of the younger generation’s lack of interest. An organisaton is trying to prevent the same from happening in Odisha. Even in...
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