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1. Traditional drink ‘Handia’ sells like hotcakes in Orissa


In the tribal areas of Orissa, the traditional drink ‘Handia’ is very much in demand in summer.



The drink made by fermenting rice through a special procedure, is intoxicating, keeps the stomachs cool and is a source of high energy. In the process, the tribals also make good money out of the sales.



Some call the country liqour the poor man’s whisky. It is popularly known as ‘Chipa Handia’ or ‘Badaej Handia’ among the tribals.… Continue

The Jharkhand State government’s ministers and supporting political coalition has no plan, policy, intention, energy, foresight or strategy and creeping towards a phase of poor potency in their political career. All dreams of the people have been shattered since, the early times of independence of country. Industrial areas of State have been promising but, the profit is reaping by a certain class of people, which is not new for us. Comparatively stronger class and anti-social elements are the ma… Continue

Tribal and Christian are already two big social classes separate to each other. Jharkhand High Court (HC) should not call Tribal-Christian to any people in official term since; it’s not giving any benefit to them for their past life being a Tribal. By saying Tribal-Christian HC is itself creating new social class in country. In better way HC should defined all converted people as Christian. So that, people could be better off as Christian or Tribal coz neither of them are minority as a whole in… Continue

Hi all wonderful people


I am a palghat iyer married to a Jharkhandi.. ..we stay @ b'lore n the place I used to stay (the apartments) after wedding had lots n lots of Tambrams. My husband does not understand an iota of Tamil (then now he can understand a bit of it not completely though!!) n he knows a few words in kannada coz he studied 4 few yrs here in bangalore. It happened so that 1 fine day our neighbours invited us to attend the sashta preethi programme(The annual function held just befor… Continue

Respected Jharkhand Group members,



There was a long discussion / argument on this topic. Good! And now I also thought to give my FUNDA here.



First of all I should clear that there are different types of Adivasis / Tribes in India. They basically reside in remote areas / away from town or cities. Their civilization has grown up in the forests / hills / jungles since very early days. They have their own traditions / customs / language and even different religion. May be some of their traditi… Continue