We Have Plenty of Reasons to Thank You
The efforts behind Explore India TV started in 2021 at a time when the world was grappling with innumerable natural disasters and a pandemic that refused to be contained. We began with a simple need – the need to rediscover our Indian heritage and cultures that have been lost either to time or have, and many still are, suffering the onslaught of bad publicity.
We were lucky that in summer of 2021 we started talking to a small group of very talented women at Jay Shakuntala Welfare Foundation in Chhattisgarh, who have been working at the grass roots since 2018 almost single handedly to reinforce our knowledge in our own Indian heritages. Explore India TV has since then evolved as the content platform especially in the areas of tribal cultural & heritage research, ethnic music, authentic folklores & literature & of course for sharing travel experiences.
You would thus see a lot of our updates on YouTube has been on these tidbits of knowledge through various trivias. Since then, our efforts have multiplied tremendously.
Today, we feel even more lucky to have a lot of you supporting us in numerous ways! Your support on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & all other social platforms including Instagram & Pinterest.
What are we doing now?
Explore India TV & Jay Shakuntala Welfare Foundation has been busy working through two innovative plans at the moment:
1 Supplemental education & education assistance to the numerous tribal communities of Chhattisgarh. This is an ambitious plan to provide mentoring, counseling & financial assistance to talented youths from the various tribal & indigenous communities who are desperately trying to further their education despite unimaginable roadblocks.
This plan also plans to set up distributed libraries in tribal communities & equip them with books & basic educational tools. If we could get more support from our donors, we would be able to provide basic computer gadgets in these libraries so that our tribal youth can access some of the most innovative learning tools.
We welcome you to take a look at the JSWF plan.
We have launched several informative clips on YouTube.
And we have also created inspirational videos urging youth & guardians to further their school & college education.
There are more videos on our YouTube playlist.
2 Rediscovering Indian heritage, tribal customs & indigenous lifestyles through tribal community researches.
For years on end various tribal customs and lifestyles have been misquoted and misinterpreted by outsiders. However, that lack of appropriate knowledge did not stop them from spreading misinformation within their social communities.
This is a much bigger problem than just a handful of YouTubers making spurious videos in the hopes of making a few bucks by misrepresenting the Indian cultures. In many cases, such authors are very influential & inadvertently such misinformation has taken on the mainstream student’s populations in various Universities abroad, tempting people to travel to these indigenous communities with preformed notions and bad intents.
We started to publish more realistic information on such age old customs, tribal rituals and lifestyles on this website as well as on our YouTube & social platforms. The adoption has been great so far!
We continue to seek your support & suggestions.
Join us to Explore India in more innovative ways!
We would love to have you with us. You can support us by showing your support on our social platforms now by connecting, commenting & sharing our work with your friends & families.
