Traditional Knowledge

• “Un”-schooled and “Un”-skilled – Bamri’s story
• India’s “Unskilled”
• Indigenous Groundwater Exploration
• Indigenous Weather Prediction
• Plants we call “weeds”
• Plants to Dye for
• Air filtering plants
• Plants – Indicators of Pollution
• Weeds as indicators of soil
• Traditional Raincoats & Umbrellas
• Tree that Lightning Avoids
• Flavored Toothbrushes
• Rat Traps
• Fishing with Plants
• Table Salt did not just come from sea & rocks
• Traditional Ferments
• Palmyra Palm Sugar
• Living Oils
• Forest Oils & Extraction
• Flour of Life
• Strings of Life
• Traps and Snares of Santhal Communities
• Combs crafted by hand
• Dryland Grasses
• Grasses preferring Moist Areas
• Ropes from the Wild
• The Birth of Patriarchy
• Ploughs of India

Paharia Wisdom

• Sovereigns
• KURWA
• Forest Edibles
• Harvest festivals of Paharias
• Foods from Every Layer of Fallow Forests
• Bamboo Diversity
• Pulse Diversity
• Psychedelic Velvet Beans
• Neglected Rice Beans
• Jobs Tear-Food & Jewellery
• Sun & Dew
• 5 Hand Tools & 20+ Crops
• Rat Traps
• “Un”-schooled and “Un”-skilled – Bamri’s story
• Musical instruments of the Paharias
• Sal Leaf Crockery
• Tattoo & Vaccines
• Hygrometre Spear Grass
• Invitation to Community Banquets