Topic: Tribes
Cultural artillery, Christianity, education: How the British & missionaries Westernised Khasis
In 'White As Milk and Rice', Nidhi Dugar Kundalia writes about how 80% of Khasis today are Christian converts because of the British.
English-medium schools, cars, Europe markets: How this tribe became richest in Western Ghats
These families shifted from the core area of the Periyar Tiger Reserve to the buffer zones seventy- two years ago.
Proposal in January but can’t marry in July — the rituals of Zeliang tribe in Nagaland
Zeliang people have specific rituals for birth, marriage & death. For instance, anyone visiting the groom's house must enter with their right foot first at the threshold.
Go to Lahaul-Spiti for ‘internet ka vanvaas’. Digital India & telecom companies skipped it
The goal of Digital India cannot be achieved without ending the digital deprivation of its most marginalised communities.
What’s Christianity to those who pray to sky & sea, says first woman to contact Sentinelese
Anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay talks about 'missionary' John Allen Chau's fatal visit to the Sentinelese island.
Oil to Kashmir — Why China, not Saudi Arabia, is Pakistan’s only Big Brother now
China has again been Pakistan’s friend — bailing it out of Saudi loans and raising the Kashmir at UNSC. But Islamabad is fast losing other friends in Islamic world.
1 hotel, 2 backup offices, 200 isolated staff — how RBI ensured Covid didn’t disrupt banking
For nearly five months now, RBI has kept many of its staff and vendors, among others, isolated in a hotel and run payments system from its data centre in Navi Mumbai.
Defence
7 big-ticket ‘Make in India’ defence projects that have failed to get off the ground
Projects like fighter aircraft for the IAF, submarines and choppers for the Navy and assault rifles for all armed forces have been stuck for years.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.