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Graphic Novel BALANGIR

Balangir Echoes: Seeds of Dreams and Future Pulse

A Balangir resident cultivates their land with ancient wisdom, dreams of opening a fancy store with a loan, reflects on their unique tribal identity and ancestral jungle, and envisions their village thriving with modern facilities by 2047.

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After the paddy harvest, we sow green gram, black gram, and chickpeas without water, storing them carefully to ensure no pests infest our home.
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With twenty thousand rupees, I will open a fancy store, manage the charges, and ensure a house, cultivating cotton to bring prosperity to our home.
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Our attire, food, customs, and worship distinguish our tribe, just as our ancestral jungle was home to elephants and tigers, yet sometimes, words remain unspoken.
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By 2047, our village will have water, utility lines, road access, education, and health services, a testament to our ongoing development and stable data.

AgricultureAspirationCommunity IdentityTraditionFuture DevelopmentNature

Woven from 31 voices

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😊

I am doing great today.

— Parikshit Majhi

🌾

After harvesting the paddy, we sow green gram, black gram, and chickpeas in this field without water. We harvest them and store them in our house, ensuring no pests infest them.

— Parikshit Majhi

🚀

If I don't get 20000 rupees, I will give it to the group from which I received it, and I will get new money, with which I will pay for it and start a big business of my own.

— Ulapi Sahu

🛖

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

💰

When I get twenty thousand rupees, I will open a fancy store, manage the charges, and a house.

— Ulapi Sahu

🌴

In my jungle, my ancestral jungle, there were elephants, tigers, Neha, Kuliha, and many other things.

— Parikshit Majhi

🍎

Hare Hare, mid-day meal for school children: four Kendu buds, then chili-okra. Yes, yes, all this food is for the children.

— swornalata nayak

🔥

Thirty-six barren, thirty-six stand up, thirty-six strong rods, thirty-six filled with jaggery, thirty-six and above thirty-six, from thirty-six, thirty-six are sparks.

— Biswanath Bag

📈

4040 is such a country where there was no Armor Zed Seno, no casteism, and nothing at all. So, if one reads the essence of the lesson, one should not engage in petty or unrefined behavior. Everything is development, where there is also change in the education system, and where all things are stable data.

— Ulapi Sahu

🌱

First, I will cultivate cotton. Through cotton cultivation, prosperity will come to our home. Good fruit cultivation is also done in our area, and I get profit only from this.

— Ulapi Sahu

😶

Even though they know it themselves, they're not saying anything. They've decided to go their own way, knowing they'll protect themselves in this world, and have conveyed that. Yet, when asked to speak, they remain silent, not uttering a word. What are they trying to say by not speaking? Even if they say they want to give up or have already given up, don't mind if it's true or not; just tell them to go ahead. But when told to speak, they stay silent, unable to express themselves even if they want to, and are now suffering alone, aren't they?

— Geetanjali Kumbgar

🏘️

2047 Sudha Amar village has water facilities, utility line facilities, road access, education facilities, and health services. All these are village facilities. This is the account.

— Parikshit Majhi

🏛️

Our attire, our food, our cooking, our customs, our worship, our traditions, all of this distinguishes us from other tribes.

— Ulapi Sahu

🙋

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— Prahallad Sika

🤧

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