More than 20 members of the indigenous Toda community took part in a project aimed at the “Revitalisation of the Toda language in prose, song and cultural ecology.” As part of the initiative, the ...

Todas live on the highest reaches in hamlets called munds made of bamboo-vaulted homes shaped like a rainbow and patched with mud and straw, believed to tackle the wind velocity at high altitudes.

TRC said it was making efforts to protect the languages of all the tribes in the Nilgiris. “In the meantime, we are creating awareness among the tribal groups by conducting workshops to preserve their ...