Stall 66 at the Jamshedpur Book Fair is eagerly waiting for its first customer. The stall sells books in Santali language written in Oli Chiki script. Despite the high footfall at the fair, no books ...

Mithu Sen, in collaboration with Sanyasi Lohar and young collaborators of pearson pally brings the Santali script to life within the landscape of a Santal village, as murals that goes beyond ...

Kendrapada: In the tribal-dominated villages of Sukinda block in Jajpur district, around 40 members of the Santhal community have joined hands to revive and preserve Ol Chiki—the century-old script of ...

For the last one decade, Ramjit Tudu of Mayurbhanj has been creating a digital identity for Santali language. Not only has he been digitising it but also providing a digital platform to writers in the ...

This series highlights the personal journeys of language activists who are also Wikimedians, exploring how they preserve, promote, and revitalize their languages through Wikimedia projects and digital ...

More than 200 languages have disappeared in India in the past 50 years and another 197 are considered at risk. The languages of Adivasi groups are mostly spoken. Little room is available online and in ...

The booklets will also be distributed in other states like Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Tripura where a sizeable Santali-speaking population live, he said. To create financial literacy ...

The Olchiki Hul Baisi outfit, demanding a four-point agenda to uplift the Santali community, has announced a statewide bandh on Tuesday (July 4). On the eve of the bandh, a torchlight procession was ...

BHUBANESWAR: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ completed 10 years on Sunday, one of the heroes who featured in the special edition of the broadcast was Odisha’s ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday paid tribute to Santali writer and educator Pandit Raghunath Murmu on his birth anniversary. Ms Banerjee said her government has declared a public ...