GUMLA: The art, culture and youth affairs department of the state government is planning to start a Kurukh language resource centre in the district. The centre — which will be the first of its kind in ...
One evening in 1993, a young Adivasi doctor named Narayan Oraon visited his friend Vinod Kumar Bhagat at a student hostel in Ranchi. The movement for separate statehood for Jharkhand, then a part of ...
Kolkata, Feb 21 (PTI) The West Bengal government today gave official status to Kurukh language, listed as an endangered language by the UNESCO, to mark the International Mother Language Day, which is ...
ROURKELA: Demand has been renewed for inclusion of Kurukh and its script in 8th Schedule of the Constitution to preserve and popularise the ancient language. A delegation of the local unit of All ...
Kurukh, an endangered tribal language of the Dravidian family, is set to get a new lease of life in West Bengal. It is spoken by the Oraon tribal community. “We are taking steps for the recognition of ...
In a major decision reflecting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s policy to reach out to fringe people the Bengal Government has decided to recognise ‘Kurukh’ and ‘Rajbongshi’ languages. Banerjee has ...
Not many know that Jharkhand’s Kurukh dialect resembles Tamil, one of south India’s most revered and widely spoken languages. Both in Kurukh and Tamil, “id” means “this”. Similarly, speakers of Kurukh ...
A tribal group in eastern India has prepared a written script to promote what it feels is becoming a dying language. The Pastoral Centre of Ranchi archdiocese hosted a meeting on May 2 to discuss ...
Like other aspects of public life in India, the language question, too, is as riven with hierarchy as it is by hankering for some or other kind of official recognition. The divisions are complex, but, ...
History teacher Kanjeev Lochan of B S College here who is an author of many books on ayurveda has compiled the first Hindi to Kurukh dictionary. There are many Hindi students and administrative ...
The idea for his first feature film, The Head Hunter, took root in the State where Nilanjan Datta grew up — Arunachal Pradesh. “I used to see old tribal men in the market place in Itanagar,” the ...
Imagine a schoolboy in rural Jharkhand making a futile attempt to learn maths tables, disturbed as he is by the constant rattle of guns in the background. A short film has shown this everyday reality ...
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