A dimension within Cultural Rituals & Festivals
This theme highlights the richness of tribal culture, traditions, community heritage, and the celebration of festivals and customs.
150 voices speak to this
Positive
Overall Community Sentiment
We are tribal people, our traditions are distinct, our culture is distinct. We all want to preserve them.
— Parikshit Majhi
Our tribal community is a distinct and unique community known for its culture, traditions, and lifestyle.
— Narvada Sarpota
The main identity of our tribe is our conservative tradition and attire, along with our rituals, spoken language, and prevalent practices related to nature that have been passed down from our ancestors. These are not found in other societies, so this is our identity.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture is the special identity of our being tribal. This includes our attire, food habits, worship, and lifestyle.
— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our tribe is mainly nature-worshipping. Our culture, customs, attire, tradition, and spoken language have a distinct identity that is different from others.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our customs, attire, traditions, spoken language, lifestyle, food habits, and culture are very different from other societies, which is an identity of the tribal community.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
These are how our tribe dresses, talks, plays, dances, sings, and celebrates festivals. We are different from other communities.
— Priti majhi
There are many things that define our tribe, such as tribal identity, a deep connection with nature, a collective lifestyle, traditional knowledge, and our connection to folk culture.
— Hemant singh Negi · Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
Our tribal community is unique. Our tribal people are distinct because our attire, our cuisine, our lifestyle, and all our customs are different.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Culture and traditions
— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha
We, the tribal people, are identified by our culture.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our tribe is different from others because its clothing, lifestyle, and cultural and traditional customs are all distinct from those of other communities.
— Sunil oraon
Firstly, our lifestyle is nature-centric. Forests, hills, rivers, soil—we have a daily connection with all of these. We see nature not just as a resource, but as a life-giving companion. Secondly, our customs and traditions, traditional knowledge, festivals, songs, dances, and folk tales have made our identity unique. These cultural aspects distinguish us from other tribes. Thirdly, our collective philosophy of life—“Everyone eats together, works together, and supports each other”—this is our strength. The community is considered senior to the individual. Fourthly, our intimate connection with land, forest, and water. Considering the hills as deities, the forest as life, and wildlife as fellow travelers—this is the root of our culture. Therefore, my tribe is different from others because of: Traditional forest food and medicinal knowledge, Collective way of life, Life principles based on ancestral advice and folk tales, Religious perspective based on self-realization and natural relationships, Traditional agriculture, forest livelihood, and indigenous practices. All these elements make my tribe known as a distinct cultural, identity-rich, and glorious community.
— sudhir gamanga · Kharlingi, Housingboard Colony, Rayagada
Our community's language, dialect, cuisine, lifestyle, customs, attire, traditions, and culture are all distinct from others, and this is our identity.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
Our attire, our food, our cooking, our customs, our worship, our traditions, all of this distinguishes us from other tribes.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Our original culture consists of our food, our customs, our traditions, and our heritage culture; it is traditional.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribal tradition
— संगीता मीणा · Metali, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
We are nature worshippers who follow tribal customary practices. Our culture, customs, attire, and traditions are unwritten, which are unique.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture, customs, attire, and spoken language are our identity. We are worshippers of nature, protectors of water, forests, and land, and this very identity makes us completely different from others.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
Our traditional attire, language, dialect, culture, and customs are our identity which preserve our existence.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Tradition and culture are an identity.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
In our culture, our way of life, natural environment, social customs, festivals, attire, dance, and music
— Bharati Khandapatra · Mayurbhanj, Odisha
Our culture, traditions, customs, food habits, worship, lifestyle, and lineage define our identity.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture is our identity
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
Customs and traditions and from our tradition
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Living together and preserving our language, dialect, and customs is our pride.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribe is different from other communities in many respects because its food habits, attire, languages, folk songs, dances, and customs are all distinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
The customs, attire, food habits, culture, and traditions of our community are very different from others, which gives us our identity and distinguishes us from them.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
In our society, we still observe traditional customs.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
Our tribe has many distinct characteristics: be it worship, tradition, or dress and food habits. People don't identify us merely by name; when they come to know us, they partake in our food, and when they understand us, they adopt our attire. This is what makes our tribe unique, and our traditions are distinct.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
The factors that define our culture, including our traditions, cultural practices, birth, death, and marriage rituals, are distinct from other tribes, as is our spoken language.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
These are the ways of wearing, talking, playing, dancing, singing, and celebrating festivals in our tribe.
— Priti majhi
The traditional practices, our culture, customs and traditions, our language, and attire of our society are very different from other societies, which sets our community apart from others.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture, civilization, tradition, customs, and preservation were our original identity.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture, customs, and traditions are unwritten, which sets us apart from others. We have primarily been nature worshippers from our ancestors.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribe is different from other castes because its eating habits and lifestyle are distinct. Its culture, traditions, and customs are different.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our culture, tradition calls us to live together.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha
Our culture, civilization, and heritage are unique.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
By observing our tribe's language, dances, songs, and worship festivals, one can understand that we are distinct from other communities.
— Priti majhi
Our village celebrated its culture, gods, and ancestral deities during festivals. We maintained our unique identity and passed it on to the next generation.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
