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World indigenous peoples day_2007 08 31_The Local The writer is a member of the Kurumba community. She publishes a newsletter called Nilgiri Seemai Sudhi. In 1994 UN decided that the Internaional Indegenous People's Day on August 9 every year, this date is indicate the day of the first meeting in 1982.important milestone by keystone is "Nilgiri Seemai Sudhi", it’s a newspaper for the different communities.
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Arakol Atta, November 2005 Keystone was celebrating its 10th year and we had a discussion with community members about work and what aspects we could take up. One of the emerging themes was `cultural revival' as the people talked about lack of traditional leadership and social cohesion. Some people talked about lack of identity and the ability to follow rituals, customs and traditions. There were more mixed marriages, language was disappearing, songs and riddles of the past were unknown to the younger generation.
This started the `Culture and People' program at Keystone which took up aspects for discussion and revival through festivals. One such festival was Arakol Atta for revival the skill of making drums and playing music. Bands came from all areas and everybody talked about the difference in Pillur music. Aracode, Banagudi, Baviyur, Sigur were represented. people exchanged issues related to continuing playing Arakol and displayed their talents.
5 new sets were distributed to the community groups after getting them made in Karamadai and with village artisans.
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Note on mental health and community wellness interventions A note on the experience and learning from two years of mental health interventions in the NBR.
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Health in the NBR - Position Paper 2015-16 Reasons for Keystone Foundation to start health related programmeinterventions in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
