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Mainstreaming Santali cuisine, one dish at a time
1 month, 1 week ago

Mainstreaming Santali cuisine, one dish at a time

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Her Santali identity and food habits associated with the tribe were the reasons why Madhusmita Soren Murmu was bullied all through her school life. As years passed by, Madhusmita pursued a career in engineering but nurtured a wish to put Santali cuisine on the world map. Madhusmita, a self-taught chef and a tribal food consultant hailing from Rairangpur of …

Food Madhusmita Santali Santali Cuisine
Translating India’s constitution into a tribal language
2 years, 7 months ago

Translating India’s constitution into a tribal language

Al Jazeera  

Academic Sripati Tudu’s translation of the document into Santali marks a milestone in the preservation of Indigenous Indian languages. “I always wanted to do alada dhoroner kaaj.” Translating India’s constitution The constitution of India gives special rights to the tribal and Indigenous people. Meena said it was a “failure of 75 years” of India’s independence that tribal languages were disappearing …

Education India Language Constitution Indian Tribal Languages
Language in education: There's power in multilingualism
2 years, 7 months ago

Language in education: There's power in multilingualism

The Hindu  

One important part of the National Educational Policy 2020 focusses on ‘Multilingualism and the power of language’. We need to abandon the elite concept of a ‘pure and standard’ language; all languages are equally systematic and all are equally fluid to be defined as multilinguality. It has now become possible to work with a pedagogy that is rooted in multilinguality, …

Education India Language English Students Indian Power
From the diary of an Adivasi woman: In India, how top-down development excludes its biggest stakeholders
5 years, 1 month ago

From the diary of an Adivasi woman: In India, how top-down development excludes its biggest stakeholders

Firstpost  

There are so few Adivasis working in a sector that envisions empowering of the Adivasi communities and other marginalised groups. Eventually, English education would open up immense work opportunities for me, besides providing social mobility far greater than what most of my fellow villagers could afford. On my third week at the block — after having stayed in a village …

India Social Development English Girls Villages Marginalised
Indigenous languages get a much-needed boost thanks to StoryWeaver, an online platform
5 years, 11 months ago

Indigenous languages get a much-needed boost thanks to StoryWeaver, an online platform

Firstpost  

Storybooks in tribal languages are an excellent tool for primary education in those languages. This is where an online platform like StoryWeaver — developed by Pratham Books with support from Google — comes in. “StoryWeaver is a collaborative platform that attempts to address the scarcity of multilingual, joyful reading material for children,” says Purvi Shah, who heads Digital Initiatives for …

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