Jharkhand

I am a project director at Sunita Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on skill development in rural Jharkhand. One of the areas that we work in is the Tundi block…

The temperature in Jharkhand’s Gumla district these past few summers has been 40–42 degrees Celsius. This is not good for broilers, or chicken raised for meat production. The ideal temperature…

“I have known the art of making soop (rice sieve) since childhood. I learned it from my mother,” says Maniya,* a woman from the Parhaiya community in Serak village, Jharkhand….

You can consider it to be a universal truth or our belief as Adivasis: Knowledge is not an individual possession; it must transcend generations. And preserving the wisdom accumulated over…

The Pansua dam was built in 1982 in Sonua block, Jharkhand, causing the adjoining low-lying forest to submerge under 50–60 feet water over the next three to five years. According…

After his father’s death, Srikant Bedia began practising snake charming. He was only 20 at the time. Now, as a 54-year-old father of four, Srikant also works at construction sites…

“We get some free ration—either 5 kg of rice or 5 kg of atta (wheat flour) per head. But that’s about it. We don’t get any help, or any other…

The Munda community has a unique self-governance system called the baees padha system, which we have been following for many generations now. The padha system is spread across four districts…