Happy Thanksgiving

It’s time to reflect and say THANK YOU!

2021 has been very unique to us in many ways. Going through the perils of a merciless pandemic, we were reflecting on some of these things while penning the December Editorial. In spite of what could have been rather dismal, we made some great progress in our efforts to rediscover Indian ethnic cultures.

We have a lot to be thankful to you.

1. We started off with the Scholarship Program to provide financial assistance to deserving students from ethnic communities to continue with their education. We are flexible to provide this assistance to students from elementary schools all through graduate courses. Read more about our Educational programs here.
2. We also have taken on an ambitious goal of setting up small libraries in various ethnic communities. We have had a few other non-profit organizations reach out to us asking for assistance. However, at this time we are working on building the hub library in Balrampur, Chhattisgarh. Read more about our Community Library programs here.
3. We have also started another program early! To assist the ethnic artists’ communities who have contributed to the Indian heritage for generations doing hand crafted tribal works of art on costumes, show their work to buyers. While these weavers have faced tremendous challenges from commercial organizations that threatened not only the art but also their survivals, that not only did not deter them from continuing their traditional Indian costume design work but also introduce newer designs on traditional motifs. Read more about our Tribal Artists Assistance programs here.

All has not been rosy though! We have fallen behind in one area that is very close to our hearts – our Research Programs. This program is directed to present authentic information on ethnic lifestyles, customs & rituals that often contradict popular knowledge & certainly, in many cases, contradict curriculum based text book information. We have written about a few of these in the past but a lot more exists, especially in their effort to persist some of their customs & rituals.

Overall though, we feel our footsteps, though few, have been in the right directions. And we could not have done this without you.

We are thankful to our sponsors who have been equally passionate to catalyze changes in our ethnic communities. We are thankful to our numerous friends & families who continue to contribute to our several non-profit programs to enhance our tribal communities’ life & cultures.

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Have a Happy Thanksgiving Week!