Heritage & Food Security

We are gradually destroying the traditional seeds of ancient times. We should preserve those seeds. Otherwise, some medicines and plants are leading to their extinction.

— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Gitilāta, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand

Slowly, old traditions and culture are fading away; it is essential to save them now.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

The traditional conversations, food, culture, and tradition-based festivals of tribal people are gradually disappearing. Our elders should hand these over to the current young generation to preserve them.

— Santosh Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha

If we do not make some effort, we will lose our traditional seeds, medicinal herbs, pure environment, air, etc.

— Kachala Choudhary

The culture, customs, attire, and traditions of us tribals are gradually disappearing in today's time. People are busy erasing their own existence in the pursuit of modernity. Therefore, it is important to preserve our culture.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

If we do not preserve our language, culture, traditional songs, dances, musical instruments, and indigenous seeds in the next 20 years, all will disappear.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

If we don't do something in the next 20 years, our traditional seeds could disappear.

— Kachala Choudhary

The identity of us tribal people is our culture, customs, attire, traditions, and spoken language, but in today's time, they are gradually disappearing.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Our culture is disappearing, which is why it is important to preserve it.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

In our village, treatment was done with wild herbs, which is decreasing today. If it is not saved in the future, it will gradually disappear.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

To preserve our cultural customs, we will have to do a lot because our culture is slowly disappearing, and people are slowly

— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

Nowadays, our linguistic culture and traditions are gradually disappearing, therefore, it is very important to promote them or ensure their preservation.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

In some time, the identity of tribal culture will be lost.

— Kachala Choudhary

Earlier, we used to keep seeds in earthen pots with neem leaves, but now those pots are not available. Their traditional profession is slowly coming to an end, and we are also forced to move towards modernity.

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

Day by day, with modern civilization, we are forgetting old knowledge and techniques. Therefore, it should be preserved.

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

The culture of the tribal community is disappearing, and at the same time, our rights are also ending. Therefore, it is important to preserve culture.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We are thinking about our young generation. Our colorful culture, customs, traditions, and food habits are being forgotten by the younger generation.

— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

The traditions, culture, customs, and practices of the tribal community are on the verge of extinction, so it is necessary to preserve our culture.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

In a few years, tribal traditions like songs, stories, and Vatra dance will become extinct.

— Kachala Choudhary

If our culture is not preserved now, many things like songs, languages, and traditional and cultural aspects will become extinct in the next 20 years.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Here, our ancestors used to cultivate sava, medon, mijhari, and kodo, whose rice and bread were eaten. Today, they are slowly disappearing. Therefore, we should preserve them so that they remain a part of our lives forever. These are very nutritious and powerful food items.

— Ram Kumari

We will forget our ancient traditions

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Language, song, and dance are disappearing, the next generation should preserve them.

— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

Day by day everyone is moving towards modernization, so preserving culture is becoming mandatory, otherwise all our traditional knowledge, skills, songs, and dances will disappear.

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

The customs, traditions, and culture of our community are on the verge of disappearing, so we must protect them so that they remain alive for future generations.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Today's generation has started forgetting our spoken language, culture, customs, and traditions. It is important to save them to keep alive the practices of our ancestors.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Our traditional mountain songs, which are connected to nature, are slowly disappearing. Therefore, we should make efforts to pass them on to the next generation.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

The old foods that were in our memory are slowly fading away, becoming like mere remnants in a basin. Let's also talk about the forest. If those remain, our culture will also remain. It is interwoven.

— Saunri Murmu

We have our tribal languages; people used to know them earlier. And after 20 years, so much forest is being destroyed, and in another 20 years, all those animals and birds will disappear.

— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

Our culture, karma, and all these things that existed before – music, songs, Birha, Qawwali – are gradually disappearing today. Tribal people are no longer able to perform them.

— deena rawat · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Ancient traditional music and dance are disappearing.

— Anupama Mahanand

In the next 20 years, Tenu, PR, and all such highly nutritious items will become extinct.

— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

If our tribal traditions are not received by the next generation, they will gradually disappear. Whatever culture exists, if it is conveyed to the next generation, it will remain.

— KARUKAR MURMU

The culture of the tribal community is disappearing, and along with it, our rights are also being eroded. That is why it is important to preserve our culture.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

The authentic village dialect spoken in our region today is gradually becoming extinct and will disappear within the next 20 years, or even within just 10 or 5 years.

— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

If we don't act now, forests, languages, seeds, songs, and other things will become extinct from us in the next 20 years.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

The situation we are in now is that the food we used to get to eat in the past has gradually disappeared.

— swornalata nayak · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

We have been living in this village for approximately 100 years. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. There have been many changes in the forest; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, then within the next 20 years, along with the destruction of the forest, all types of wild animals, medicinal plants, and creepers will disappear. Camps should be organized to teach traditional forest and tribal knowledge from elders to the younger generation, transfer it to the next generation, and preserve it.

— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha

Our culture's traditions are now on the verge of extinction. The Danda Nrutya, Ghumura, and Nachania performers that once existed have all disappeared, and with them, the art and culture.

— Padmini Bhoi

They used to make wooden presses for extracting oil. All of that is disappearing and will become extinct in the next 20 years.

— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh