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Indigenous Food Talk Session

The Santals, the largest homogenous tribe of India, have a legacy of collecting food from their natural surroundings of jungle, hills and water bodies. Though many of them are now dependent on market vegetables, yet they still continue to maintain their traditional food habit of their ancestors found from plants, roots, mushrooms, insects, birds, reptiles and hunted animals. These naturally available foods not only provide them with the required nutrition and rich minerals in their daily diet, but also help in maintaining a sustainable way of life.


The discussion will be on some of the traditional food of Santals and their cooking process and how over the generations the foods have started to lose its originality or have amalgamated with the foods of their neighboring communities.


Venue: Rabindra Tirtha

Date: 23rd Dec, 2022

Time: 16:00 - 17:00 Hrs IST


*The talk session is free for all and is suitable for all age types.

About the Speaker

Dr. Boro Baski (Ph.D.) is the President of Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust, an organization working for the overall development of the Santal tribe of Ghosaldanga, Bishnubati and surrounding villages in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India. He is the Head of the Museum of Santal Culture at Bishnubati, Birbhum. He is also the co-founder of a non-formal Santal school, the Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram, situated 10 kilometers away from Rabindranath Tagore’s Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. This school has an innovative approach to Santal education, combining the needs of poor Santal village children with Tagore’s emphasis on learning through play, music, arts, and through the medium of their mother tongue. His work among the Santals also receives the support of “Friends of Ghosaldanga and Bishnubati e.V.”, in Frankfurt.