Govind Hamram is a 60-year-old Santhal farmer and healer. He takes us on a journey through his world of hodopathy, on how he finds the herbs, the process of making the cures and how it is different from other treatments. And does it take community to save a forest?

Mining and the Red River

Stories have always been the most effective vehicle of passing knowledge down from generation to generation. Storytellers would travel from village to village narrating stories on, lives, livelihoods, cultures, values, knowledge systems, codes of conduct, divisions of labour, food systems, sociopolitics, and their relationships to their natural habitats. Somewhere along the way, this old practice started dying out, leaving precious local knowledge in the past.​We bring stories from India’s indigenous communities and rich rural countryside. We want power to go back to the communities who have managed their own resources for centuries before modern-era interventions upset the delicate balance of nature.