A dimension within Degradation & Traditional Life
This theme centers on the importance of preserving cultural heritage, including tribal traditions, crafts, and festivals, against loss.
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AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
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
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
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
Nowadays, people from the tribal community do not prefer to eat tribal food, as a result of which tribal traditions are being lost.
— Arati Khandapatra
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
We will forget our ancient traditions
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Traditional song and dance are on the verge of disappearing in the modern era. This is because, in the scientific age, people are attracted to mobile phones and DJs. As a result, our traditional dance and music are fading away.
— Anirudha Marai
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
Sir, even the items used for worship during festivals are currently not being utilized. It's as if our cultural, traditional, and festive practices are on the verge of disappearing.
— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Gitilāta, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
In a few years, tribal traditions like songs, stories, and Vatra dance will become extinct.
— Kachala Choudhary
We have been living in our village for 100 years. Nowadays, there are no animals. The forests are also dwindling, and songs and dances are also disappearing.
— sudhir gamanga · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
In some time, the identity of tribal culture will be lost.
— Kachala Choudhary
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
Slowly, old traditions and culture are fading away; it is essential to save them now.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture is disappearing as we explore our traditional songs, dances, and stories through foreign customs and traditions.
— Puspanjali Nag
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 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
Our ancestors used to farm with plows and bullocks. But nowadays, all those things are disappearing.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
The traditional songs and dances that used to be part of our tribal weddings and festivals like Nuakhai are diminishing day by day. I request the government to preserve this.
— Suresh Miniaka
In our village, in olden times, iron axes were made, but now that practice is gradually disappearing day by day.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
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
In the past, dance and music were traditional, but now traditional dance and music are not common.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
Previously, tribal people used to make various types of traditional cakes during different festivals, but they are not made now.
— KARUKAR MURMU · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
The language that our tribal ancestors used to speak, today's generation is unable to speak it.
— sophia akoijam
Earlier, on the festival of Naag Panchami, people used to swing on trees and sing songs, instead of setting up separate swings. But now, this practice is disappearing.
— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar 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
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
The game we used to play before is not being played now. Boys and girls are not playing. All these are disappearing for us.
— Puspanjali Nag
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 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
Oh, there is also a distinct language of our Gonda society. And no one speaks that language anymore, slowly it has also disappeared. And now what we used to get from the forest, we are not getting it from the forest anymore, all the forests are cut down.
— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha
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
Day by day, due to modernity, the younger generation is not paying attention to our tribal art and culture, which has become a matter of concern.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Our culture is disappearing, which is why it is important to preserve it.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
In earlier times, medicinal fruits were found in the forest, but now those things are becoming extinct day by day.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Slowly, because traditional rituals, customs, dances, and songs are not happening, there is also no play area. Traditional games are not being played.
— Anirudha Marai · Sambalpur, Odisha
In today's changing world, people are attracted to foreign trends, gradually forgetting their language and songs. Therefore, the government and we must come forward to preserve our traditions.
— Anirudha Marai · Sambalpur, Odisha
Day by day, with modern civilization, we are forgetting old knowledge and techniques. Therefore, it should be preserved.
— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, 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
