Asian Lite News Archive

Category: FEATURE

  • A vanishing tribe of Karnataka

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    By Fakir Balaji  Living far from the madding crowd and on the fringes of the deep forests in the bio-diverse Western Ghats off coastal Karnataka are the Halakki Vokkaligaru, a vanishing tribe, whose younger generation is a victim of modern lifestyle. Having survived over the centuries carrying the hoary tradition of their ancestors, the aboriginal…

  • DULMIAL: The Village with the Gun

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    Dulmial, Pakistan, popularly known as  ‘the Village with the Gun,’ paying tributes to  the Soldiers of the First World War, 100 years on…reports Dr Irfan Malik and Michael Noble, The Centre for Hidden Histories, University of Nottingham A nineteenth century cannon sits at the centre of a Pakistani village. Here we take a look at the…