When we talk about endangered languages in India, we often speak in terms of loss of the words, the songs and the tongue that disappears.
But rarely do we talk about the effort endangered language speakers put into reviving a language within their own community and the challenges they face. Rarer still are conversations around attempts that may not fully succeed.
Reena and Mantram’s story shifts that lens. It shows us what we gain when we begin to notice that loss and how community participation can begin to turn things around.
Read the full story by Pallavi Chaturvedi (@pallavichaturvedi21 ) on PARI. Link in bio.
Interpreter: Kiran Admache (@its_kir.anjana )
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#paristories #endangered #language #gondi
This weekend, we’re collaborating with People’s Archives of Rural India (PARI) to bring forward the stories on land, labour, gender and more. Expect songs of labour, films on climate and land, and conversations on what it means to document lives that often go unseen.
All in conjunction with our ongoing exhibition ‘Beneath the Turning Sky’.
🔗 Head to the link in bio for details and registrations.
📜The Month of May at MAP is supported by Axis Bank.
#MAPBangalore #BangaloreEvents #ThingsToDoInBangalore #MuseumWeek #MayEvents
How do we tell stories with integrity?
How do we listen before we write?
How do we document communities beyond stereotypes and assumptions?
Meet our facilitators from PARI Network leading ‘Writing for Change’ as part of the Future Full of Forests Fellowship.
This workshop explores storytelling as a tool for connection, documentation, and social change. Through writing, visual storytelling, research, and conversations, participants will engage with questions of representation, ethics, context, and voice.
Designed after conversations with our fellows and an understanding of their lived realities and work on ground, the workshop has been thoughtfully tailored to support their journeys as storytellers, researchers, and changemakers.
With journalist and editor Priti David and filmmaker-editor Sinchita Parbat, the workshop brings together perspectives from journalism, filmmaking, and field-based storytelling to explore how stories can be told with care, responsibility, and depth.
Water crisis rubbing salt in agariyas’ wounds by Vidya Krishnan.
Salt pan workers in Gujarat’s Kachchh district suffer serious health problems escalated by a severe shortage of potable water and non-functioning health centres.
Read the full story on PARI. Link in bio
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#paristories #india #salt #gujarat
PARI reporters Sandhya (@sandh_yaaaaa ) and Sanskriti Talwar chance upon a game played by rural women on their way to Hampi, Karnataka. A version of which may date back to the epic story of Mahabharata.
Read the full story on PARI. Link in bio.
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#paristories #indiangames #karnataka #games
This story by Priti David (@priti_david ) catches the dilemmas and disasters hitting poor communities, mainly Adivasis, Dalits and poor OBCs. Three years after the government declared the Veerangana Durgavati (VDTR) in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh as India’s 54th tiger reserve in 2023.
MP has the largest number of tiger reserves in India – 9. The villages displaced to create these reserves are inhabited by people who are critically dependent on non-timber forest products (NTFP). While already, at least one in every three Adivasis in the state is landless. And tens of thousands have suffered displacement over decades. As many as 93 villages are to be swallowed by the VDTR.
Read the full story on PARI. Link in bio.
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#paristories #wildlife #madhyapradesh #tiger
A couple of days before, I spoke to the villagers. They laughed and said,
“What will change? We are still fetching water like last year.”
Around this time last year, I visited Sugat village to document how the community fetches water, walking up and down steep hills to reach the Narmada river. They have been doing this for nearly two decades.
In the scorching heat of the Nimad region, this daily task is not just exhausting, but also risky. Yet every morning and evening, the community comes together and makes that journey, because there is no other option.
A year later, nothing has changed.
Read the full story. It was published by @pari.network link in bio. ‘In Alirajpur - It’s a Long Walk to Water’.
Please share it widely and amplify it with mainstream media so this reaches those in power and brings attention to the urgent need for a reliable water supply for the people of Sugat.
#watercrisis #india #madhyapradesh #documentaryphotography
On May 1st, 2026, Labour Day, A poem by Anjum Ismail from the PARI archives.
Illustration by Labani Jangi (@aanokh_somuddur )
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#paristories #labourday #indiaphotography #workersday
This is the story of the poorest MLA in India’s richest state.
An Adivasi in Palghar district, Vinod Nikole, began his campaign leading to his first term with Rs. 15,000 lent to him by his schoolteacher wife. A son of brick kiln workers, Nikole gives half of his MLA salary to his party each month. It was the first time he had a decent, proper monthly amount in his life, at age 41.
Nikole defeated his wealthy and structurally better-equipped rivals twice because of his mass connections. He has been part of all the many farmers’ marches and workers’ struggles in the region, often leading from the forefront.
Nikole says, “Make a home in the hearts and minds of voters. You have to earn their trust. So, then the voters won’t sell their vote when others try to throw money at them.”
Read the full story by Parth M.N (@parth.mn1991 ) on PARI. Link in bio
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#paristories #mla #elections #maharashtra
The war on Iran, via the LPG shortage, is disrupting the midday meals of schoolchildren as far away as Uttar Pradesh. Every afternoon, once classes end, teachers and cooks at Primary School Roodan Khera head out to collect firewood. Their school has an LPG connection, but no gas. This is the situation across UP, where over 15 million children in primary and upper primary schools are affected. Making things worse, firewood is increasingly hard to find, too, as hotels and restaurants are buying it up first.
Read the full story by Jigyasa Mishra (@jigyasa.mishra ) on PARI. Link in bio
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#paristories #india #uttarpradesh #lpgshortage
Tiamongla is preparing mipangming with the foraged ingredients in a Changki pot made by her. Mipangming is an Ao Naga speciality dish cooked for guests or during special occasions. A key ingredient in Mipangming is the fermented crab paste – used widely across Ao Naga cooking.
“The crab paste made in Changki is considered the best and high in demand,” says Tiamongla proudly.
Watch the full film by Shreya Katyayini (@shreya.katyayini ) and Keduokhrieto Sachü (@kedsachu ) on PARI. Link in bio.
Translations by Atenzük Amri (@atenzuk_amri )
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#paristories #nagaland #food #cooking
Tiamongla and her friend Anokwala from Changki in Nagaland, walks down paddy fields, forest paths and near water bodies – travelling up to two hours – to forage mipang, thoto and other ingredients for the local delicacies she cooks up.
“We learnt the skill of foraging and the knowledge about what is edible and what is not by following our parents or experienced foragers. The younger generation go for other occupations to earn rather than practising farming or foraging,” says Tiamongla.
Watch the full film by Shreya Katyayini (@shreya.katyayini ) and Keduokhrieto Sachü (@kedsachu ) on PARI. Link in bio.
Translations by AtenZük Amri (@atenzuk_amri
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#paristories #nagaland #food #foraging
