Tag: Older generation

Bribed but denied – 50 elders of Jharkhand village without pension, ration

 
/ April 29, 2016

Deocharan Manjhi, an old man in a village in Jharkhand struggles to survive but his struggle isn’t so much as physical, as much as fighting for a dignified survival. It has been many years since Manjhi has been unsuccessful in applying for the old age Pension Scheme to get his...

Need To Preserve – A Tribe’s Oral History

 
/ October 20, 2010

Oral history of the forest tribes of Goa awaits documentation, revival.