Grounding the Spirit: Revival of Irula Art as a Form of Narrative Tradition

Kriebish had, for a long time, cherished a dream of setting up a learning and documentation centre dedicated to the study of oral literature, village religion and customs, music and dance, traditional arts and crafts, theatre and cinema of the Tamil people. Would the dream ever come true? One of a series of articles by students of a graduate level course on ‘The Nature and Practice of Thinking’ at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. As part of this course, the class studied different writing styles ranging from poetry to critical essays. The series represents an attempt to find a different voice to talk about some important themes in social science.