Article first published in Hindi by Eklavya for Chakmak magazine.
As we walked through the forest, on our way to a remote
village inaccessible by road, Jagannath narrates his experience of famine… “I
remember one summer… I would have been
5-6 years old… nothing was left to eat in the village… every grain of the last
harvest had been consumed… the grain stores were empty… I remember then accompanying my parents to the
forest… For a full season, we subsisted solely on forest produce… jungle
fruits, tubers, greens, seeds, jungle millets, mushrooms…"
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As I was going through Eklavya’s recently published
Rukhi-Sukhi, a very interesting collection of facts on famine compiled by the
students of Adharshila, a residential school for Adivasi children in Badhwani
district in MP, I got reminded of Jagannath, a young Kondh Adivasi grassroots activist
whom I had recently met in Muniguda, Rayagada district of Odisha…
As we walked through the forest, on our way to a remote
village inaccessible by road, Jagannath narrates his experience of famine… “I
remember one summer… I would have been
5-6 years old… nothing was left to eat in the village… every grain of the last
harvest had been consumed… the grain stores were empty… I remember then accompanying my parents to the
forest… For a full season, we subsisted solely on forest produce… jungle
fruits, tubers, greens, seeds, jungle millets, mushrooms…"
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