12-03-2007, 02:32 PM
Bheel Narrative of Ramayana to be recorded for preservation.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: A group of 'Bhil' tribals in their colourful costume, men sporting traditional headgear are all devotion, performing their rituals, not perturbed by a camera crew recording them.
It is not a scene from a regular film or a documentary being shot. The performance and for these tribals their very own Ramayana , which is different from the one we know, is a part of a massive documentation work being undertaken by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
This documentation is crucial as till now there has been no record made of what form of Ramayana narrative the tribals in India have been following from centuries. It has been a oral narrative passed from one generation to another.
Molly Kaushal, Head of the Department, Jansampada Department of IGNCA says that it is important to record and document it for preservation. "...because when globalization grows, this heritage will get diffused...lost, and by making record of it, not only we will preserve it but also more people will get a chance to see it", she says.
The work currently being undertaken is about different versions of Ram Katha , or Ramayana , as prevalent among the tribals of the country in narrative and oral forms, and different from the one we have heard.
Starting this week, tribals from states of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and West Bengal would be coming to Delhi and performing their version of the story of Ram, as they have learnt it from their ancestors and passed on from one generation to another in the family, and of one which there is no written record.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tribal_...how/2591416.cms
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: A group of 'Bhil' tribals in their colourful costume, men sporting traditional headgear are all devotion, performing their rituals, not perturbed by a camera crew recording them.
It is not a scene from a regular film or a documentary being shot. The performance and for these tribals their very own Ramayana , which is different from the one we know, is a part of a massive documentation work being undertaken by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
This documentation is crucial as till now there has been no record made of what form of Ramayana narrative the tribals in India have been following from centuries. It has been a oral narrative passed from one generation to another.
Molly Kaushal, Head of the Department, Jansampada Department of IGNCA says that it is important to record and document it for preservation. "...because when globalization grows, this heritage will get diffused...lost, and by making record of it, not only we will preserve it but also more people will get a chance to see it", she says.
The work currently being undertaken is about different versions of Ram Katha , or Ramayana , as prevalent among the tribals of the country in narrative and oral forms, and different from the one we have heard.
Starting this week, tribals from states of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and West Bengal would be coming to Delhi and performing their version of the story of Ram, as they have learnt it from their ancestors and passed on from one generation to another in the family, and of one which there is no written record.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tribal_...how/2591416.cms
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