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Madai: Rituals in the bazaar
As the paddy crop ripens and the season of harvest starts, the air gets nippy in the southern hinterlands of Satpura. November slips away as the ripe golden crop sways in the cool breeze and women start reaping the harvest. Harvesting ends as December brings with it…
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In the earliest of times there was no land but only water all around. One fine day, God created the earth. Immediately after, two ascetics emerged from the depths of the ground. One of the ascetics was the Brahmin and the other was the Nanga Baiga. To the Brahmin, God gave pen and paper for…
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Wealth and Sleep
A Baiga story from Hirapur, Balaghat District
Once the Cow was disputing with the Wind as to who was greater. Then Nanga Baiga (the first Baiga on earth) came by and asked them why they were fighting. The Cow said, ‘I am the greatest, for all over the world the crops grow…
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Sunher Singh Taram is the founder and editor of the little magazine 'Gondwana Darshan'. He has also edited a collection of short stories titled, Viraasat Mein Mili Gondi Kahaniya ('Gondi Stories Received as an Inheritance', 2015). He has contributed to the revival of an annual pilgrimage at the…
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