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23/08/22 05:05 AM IST

Arunachal’s Wancho community sets out to digitise ancient folktales

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  • The elders of the Wancho community in a remote district of Arunachal Pradesh have taken up the task of recording their age-old folktales in digitised form with the help of a UK-based researcher.
About Wanchos 
  • The Wanchos have a rich tradition of oral stories, memories, and songs. 
  • The knowledge of the ancestors that have accumulated over generations is a record of life as it has been lived for centuries in this little-known area of the Patkai hills.
  • The pattern of life is changing rapidly as the district becomes more integrated and accessible to the outside world. Younger people are acquiring new priorities for education and employment, and they have much less time than before to listen to the memories of their parents and grandparents.
  • The Wancho tribe, with a population of nearly 57,000 members, inhabits mostly the Longding district that borders Myanmar.
Objective 
  • The objective of the project is to record, document, and translate a collection of the oral narratives from two indigenous communities of North East India – the Wancho in Arunachal Pradesh and the Tangkhul in Manipur, and then to work with members of the community to adapt one selected story from each group into a short animated film, the researcher who is also a film-maker.
Source- The Print 

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