A dimension within Cultural Seed Heritage
This theme highlights efforts to preserve cultural heritage and tribal traditions against loss.
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Overall Community Sentiment
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 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
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
If we do not act now, in the coming 20 years, forests, languages, seeds, songs, and other things will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we don't do anything, then in the next 20 years, all our songs, forests, languages, seeds, trees, animals, and birds will disappear.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
If we do nothing, then within twenty years, along with losing our dance and music, forests are also disappearing, and we might lose all of them.
— S Guruteli · Gandiaguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
In the next twenty years, our forest, our culture, customs and traditions, seeds, everything will be destroyed.
— Kachala Choudhary
If we do not protect our culture, then in the coming time, all our traditional songs, traditional dances, musical instruments, and folk songs will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We believe that if we do nothing, songs, forests, languages, and seeds will be lost within the next 20 years.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
In a few years, tribal traditions like songs, stories, and Vatra dance will become extinct.
— Kachala Choudhary
If we don't act now, then in the next 20 years, our water, forests, land, language, seeds, and even the indigenous people will be destroyed.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
In some time, the identity of tribal culture will be lost.
— Kachala Choudhary
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
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
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
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
We should protect the culture of our tribes because if we don't, in the coming time, we will become extinct and our community will cease to exist.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we do not preserve our language now, according to our tribe, then it too will become extinct. Forests will also become extinct, and seeds will become extinct.
— 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
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
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
We should preserve our culture because if we do not, then in the future, we, our community, and all our cultural traditions will become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Ancient traditional music and dance are disappearing.
— Anupama Mahanand
Our culture is disappearing as we explore our traditional songs, dances, and stories through foreign customs and traditions.
— Puspanjali Nag
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
If we do nothing, then within 20 years, there will be no forest, no language, no songs, no seeds. Name Irma Madhi, Village Gorakhunta, Malkangiri.
— Trinath badanayak · Kamarpalli, Malkangiri, Odisha
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
Our culture is disappearing, which is why it is important to preserve it.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
If the culture of the tribals is not protected, then the tribals themselves will also disappear.
— Gopal
Slowly, old traditions and culture are fading away; it is essential to save them now.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Language, song, and dance are disappearing, the next generation should preserve them.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Forgetting our music, art, and culture, we are moving towards modernity day by day, and we are starting to forget traditional knowledge. That's why the preservation of culture is absolutely essential.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We should also preserve our culture because if we do not preserve our culture, then all our language knowledge, indigenous knowledge will disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should preserve our culture because if our culture does not survive, our indigenous people will also not survive. At the same time, all the traditional customs and cultural practices will also disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
What could be lost in the next 20 years: songs, music, seeds, forests.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
The people of our tribe are going through such a phase today that many types of languages have come here, such as Bhojpuri, Hindi, etc., which will make our language extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
