Ethnography of Ghumura: A Tribal Derived Folk Dance of Kalahandi, Odisha
Ethnography of Ghumura: A Tribal Derived Folk Dance of Kalahandi, Odisha Dr Mahendra Kumar Mishra Ghumra is an indigenous dance found between the rivers of Mahanadi and Indravati peninsula. The tribal people of kalahandi, Koraput, Bastar, Bolangir, predominantly perform the dance and Oriya speaking localities of Chhatishgarh.This is a male dance in which the males …
Expressive Tradition as Intangible Heritage From Academic Domain to Public Sphere
Mahendra Kumar Mishra “ In 1989, we conducted a seminar on Gond folklore in a Gond village. Eighty Gond traditional leaders attended the meeting. Government sanctioned three thousand rupees to our organisation to conduct the seminar. But while attending the seminar, eighty Gond leaders contributed their share in form of rice, money and labour. Their …
Ramkatha in Oral Narratives and folk performance of Orissa
Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Orissa The number of Ramayanas and the range of their influence in South and South east Asia over the past twenty-five hundred years or more are astonishing. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres.(epics,Kavya or ornate poetic compositions, puranas or old mythological stories ands forth.) …
Oral Poetry : Folk songs of Kalahandi
Mahendra K Mishra Kalahandi is a district situated in the Western part of Orissa. Bolangir district of Orissa and Raipur district of Madhya Pradesh are to the north of it, Koraput and Madhya Pradesh to the south-west and Phulbani and Koraput to the east. The district extends over an area of 11,835 Sq. Kms. and …
Sacred worldview in tribal memory: sustaining nature through cultural actions
Sacred worldview in tribal memory: sustaining nature through cultural actions Mahendra K Mishra State Tribal Education Coordinator Orissa, India Language & Ecology vol.2 no.4 (2009) et’s imagine a tribal habitation without a road. Before the road, no jeep or truck could reach there. No forest contractors, forest officers were in the forest. The worldview …
The Kind Tiger and the Truthful Cow : Folk Discourse in Oral and Written Literature
Mahendra K Mishra It was a June evening in Bhubaneswar in 1993. My children asked me to tell them a story, so I started narrating the well-known story “The Old Tiger and the Golden Bangle” about how an old tiger could not catch prey, so he cleverly promised to give golden bangles to anyone …