Beauty of India and its People
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well i have visited & stayed with my uncle in Gorakhpur few years back for few days at Air Force area when he was transferred there ....
Well , Khusinagar temple , gorakhnath temple visits were simply great.....
well infrastructure of the city was bad & the people were very friendly
Well , Khusinagar temple , gorakhnath temple visits were simply great.....
well infrastructure of the city was bad & the people were very friendly
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agar abhi bhi nahi shudhra koi aur if i see any offtopic post....then kashiraam ji ki kasam uski mayawati se shadi karwa dunga..rofl:
aaahhhhhhhhh bachaoooooooo
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guys i just notice we forgot Paan!!! it is an integral part of our life!!!!!
if anyone of you guys come Bhopal please have Paan from Banarsi Paan Bhandar at New Market......
kya batau kya paan hota hai bas muh me ghul jata hai ..........
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Jai Hind :
^A Good Example after Mile Sur Mera Tumhara..
^A Good Example after Mile Sur Mera Tumhara..
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Hello guyz...
Few months ago I was watching National Geographic Channel.. and they were mentioning this Irular tribe from northern Tamil Nadu - India... who enjoy rats as delicacies.. I was truly impressed by the diversity of our neighbors.
Here is an article from BBC, showing yet another aspect of diversity of India.
'Rats are a real delicacy'
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | 'Rats are a real delicacy'
Name the two creatures you'd least like to encounter on your kitchen floor, and it's likely the snake and the *** would come near the top of the list.
But the Irular people of northern Tamil Nadu, India, have no such phobia.
"We get licences to hunt snakes and extract the poison to use in medicine for snake bites," said Veeramani, an Irular leader.
As for the rats, they devastate crops - till the Irulars come to the rescue.
"We dig up the entrances to *** burrows, set alight a pot of straw with a hole in it - then we blow the smoke into the burrow and the rats die," Veeramani enthused.
And Irulars feast on the rats they catch. The meat is a bit like mutton, Veeramani explained calmly.
"It takes 20 rats to create one kilogram of meat, so it should be seen as a real delicacy," he said.
Forest produce
All this I learned at a meeting of representatives of India's estimated 70 million indigenous tribal people, known as Adivasis.
Despite their numbers they live on the margins of society, often displaced from their traditional land.
A major gathering of 36 different tribal peoples took place recently in India's southernmost state, Tamil Nadu.
It gave me the chance to find out more about their ways.
If you haven't been put off by the *** meat, I'll tell you about the Sholaga people from the hill country.
One showed me how to catch wild hens in the forests.
You squat in the shade, and when your prey is near, you do this, he said - leaning his head to one side, he prodded his tightened neck skin very rapidly, making a sound uncannily like a hen clucking.
That lures the fowl into your bamboo trap.
This is traditional knowledge.
There were endless stocks of it on offer at this gathering of 5,000 Adivasis or tribal people in the industrial Tamil town of Salem.
Some live on the plains as shepherds or cattle herders.
But again and again I heard of forests, and people's displacement from forest land at the hands of government officials or plantation owners.
Talking to just a handful of tribal people from across India, I heard of a whole catalogue of forest produce which people used to live on but, mostly, can gather no more.
Mongoose, rabbit, porcupine and lizards; ginger, turmeric and honey; incense and sandalwood.
"Our mothers sang songs in the forests, our children lay on the forest floor," lamented a Sholaga woman, Chinnaputti.
"Now, for digging the same earth, we get arrested."
Old rituals
At night, Salem was lit up by each people's spectacular song and dance display, and deafened by the slightly over-powerful amplifier.
The Munda people of eastern India put on a frenzied show, prominently featuring bows and arrows and spears - weapons not traditionally used for hunting, but for fighting other people, the drummer coolly explained to me.
In an Irular dance, one youth was clad in a fetching pink dress with jasmine in his hair, while another swung a live monitor lizard around by its legs.
Meeting such people and witnessing their rituals in today's India is a fascinating experience.
In a country of ancient cultures these are the oldest of all.
Today's politicians argue about whether the northern Aryans or the southern Dravidians settled the country first and whether there was once a temple on the site of a mosque destroyed by a mob 10 years ago.
'Criminals'
In fact, it was the Adivasis who came first, as I was reminded by two cheery brothers of the Kani tribe, stocky and woolly-haired, from India's extreme southern tip.
We reckon we've been here 50,000 years, they said.
Today many Adivasis have become Christians, and the gathering's organisers, the Church of South India, want to give tribal rights greater national prominence.
Jacob Belly is a churchman and expert on Adivasi issues. His parting message to me was stark: "We are the criminals.
"We've taken their land, their mountains and their rivers, and we've treated them like our property."
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Few months ago I was watching National Geographic Channel.. and they were mentioning this Irular tribe from northern Tamil Nadu - India... who enjoy rats as delicacies.. I was truly impressed by the diversity of our neighbors.
Here is an article from BBC, showing yet another aspect of diversity of India.
'Rats are a real delicacy'
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | 'Rats are a real delicacy'
Name the two creatures you'd least like to encounter on your kitchen floor, and it's likely the snake and the *** would come near the top of the list.
But the Irular people of northern Tamil Nadu, India, have no such phobia.
"We get licences to hunt snakes and extract the poison to use in medicine for snake bites," said Veeramani, an Irular leader.
As for the rats, they devastate crops - till the Irulars come to the rescue.
"We dig up the entrances to *** burrows, set alight a pot of straw with a hole in it - then we blow the smoke into the burrow and the rats die," Veeramani enthused.
And Irulars feast on the rats they catch. The meat is a bit like mutton, Veeramani explained calmly.
"It takes 20 rats to create one kilogram of meat, so it should be seen as a real delicacy," he said.
Forest produce
All this I learned at a meeting of representatives of India's estimated 70 million indigenous tribal people, known as Adivasis.
Despite their numbers they live on the margins of society, often displaced from their traditional land.
A major gathering of 36 different tribal peoples took place recently in India's southernmost state, Tamil Nadu.
It gave me the chance to find out more about their ways.
If you haven't been put off by the *** meat, I'll tell you about the Sholaga people from the hill country.
One showed me how to catch wild hens in the forests.
You squat in the shade, and when your prey is near, you do this, he said - leaning his head to one side, he prodded his tightened neck skin very rapidly, making a sound uncannily like a hen clucking.
That lures the fowl into your bamboo trap.
This is traditional knowledge.
There were endless stocks of it on offer at this gathering of 5,000 Adivasis or tribal people in the industrial Tamil town of Salem.
Some live on the plains as shepherds or cattle herders.
But again and again I heard of forests, and people's displacement from forest land at the hands of government officials or plantation owners.
Talking to just a handful of tribal people from across India, I heard of a whole catalogue of forest produce which people used to live on but, mostly, can gather no more.
Mongoose, rabbit, porcupine and lizards; ginger, turmeric and honey; incense and sandalwood.
"Our mothers sang songs in the forests, our children lay on the forest floor," lamented a Sholaga woman, Chinnaputti.
"Now, for digging the same earth, we get arrested."
Old rituals
At night, Salem was lit up by each people's spectacular song and dance display, and deafened by the slightly over-powerful amplifier.
The Munda people of eastern India put on a frenzied show, prominently featuring bows and arrows and spears - weapons not traditionally used for hunting, but for fighting other people, the drummer coolly explained to me.
In an Irular dance, one youth was clad in a fetching pink dress with jasmine in his hair, while another swung a live monitor lizard around by its legs.
Meeting such people and witnessing their rituals in today's India is a fascinating experience.
In a country of ancient cultures these are the oldest of all.
Today's politicians argue about whether the northern Aryans or the southern Dravidians settled the country first and whether there was once a temple on the site of a mosque destroyed by a mob 10 years ago.
'Criminals'
In fact, it was the Adivasis who came first, as I was reminded by two cheery brothers of the Kani tribe, stocky and woolly-haired, from India's extreme southern tip.
We reckon we've been here 50,000 years, they said.
Today many Adivasis have become Christians, and the gathering's organisers, the Church of South India, want to give tribal rights greater national prominence.
Jacob Belly is a churchman and expert on Adivasi issues. His parting message to me was stark: "We are the criminals.
"We've taken their land, their mountains and their rivers, and we've treated them like our property."
http://img242.imageshack.us/i/39429769veeramani203.jpg/
http://img199.imageshack.us/i/39429771sekar203.jpg/
http://img153.imageshack.us/i/39429777chinnaputti203.jpg/
http://img140.imageshack.us/i/laun.jpg/
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Has anyone met/seen this Irular tribe from northern Tamil Nadu ?
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Well their are more then thousand tribes in india ...all have unique culture......so it become difficult to track all of them
most of them are recognized by constitution of india
List of Scheduled Tribes in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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But I am particularly interested in Irular tribe for obvious reasons... Are they willing to travel ?
Instead of using pesticides and chemicals, I think it is more natural and organic way of getting rid of rats from homes. Are there any other tribes in India who eat rats ? Just curious...
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I have heard that Musahar of Bihar also do this...Are there any other tribes in India who eat rats ? Just curious...
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lol
guys i just notice we forgot Paan!!! it is an integral part of our life!!!!!
if anyone of you guys come Bhopal please have Paan from Banarsi Paan Bhandar at New Market......
kya batau kya paan hota hai bas muh me ghul jata hai ..........
OMG PLEASE STOP POSTING SUCH PICS, IT MAKES SITTING AT WORK VERY DIFFICULT LOL
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