TRIBAL HEROINES – PHULO MURMU AND JHANO MURMU
Indian Tribal Heroines Phulo and Jhano P.A. Chacko Phulo Murmu and Jhano Murmu are little known as heroic revolutionary fighters even among their own Santal tribal brethren. Were they to…
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY
Tribal people in India constitute 8.6% of the nation’s total population, numbering over 104 million, according to the 2011 census. The aboriginal ethnic groups (Adivasis) of India are called “scheduled…
My Food is My Culture
If dance is part of people’s culture, so is dressing habit. So is eating habit. My food habit is my culture. How can it become anti-culture or anti-religious? Our human…
Am I not free to worship my God?
And she spoke thus: I am privileged to be a woman. Because my God has planted me here on this planet! He has a plan for my life here on…
Let Us Be Human!
Why violence in the world? Are we living in a world where one gorilla army invades and destroys another gorilla group? Why have we humans thrown away all civilized norms…
THE AD MAD WORLD
The advertising world is a tantalising one. ‘I am a modern woman…’ says a Vicco turmeric skin cream advertisement displaying a fair-skinned damsel. She has just walked out of a…