Just because the Badagas arrived in the Nilgiris much later than other tribal groups, like the Todas and the Kotas, it does not discredit their claims of indigeneity to the Nilgiris, said Paul ...
Mallammal, a woman hailing from the Badagas, an ethnolinguistic community in the Nilgiris district, turned 100 on Saturday, ...
May 15 from the year 1989 onwards is being observed as \'Badagas Day\' to rally the members of the community for collective action. Ooty: The prestigious 'Badagas day' will be celebrated in Nilgiris ...
COIMBATORE: A Kotagiri-based activist, Yukesh Saravanan, who is also the convenor of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Youth Caucus, has called out the forest department for its unethical ...
They’ve been fighting to regain their lost status as tribals from the 1970s, and on Tuesday the Badagas, an indigenous community in the Nilgiris, filed a petition in the Madras High court to demand ...
Udhagamandalam: The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC) has appealed to society for managing the Tribal Cultural and Research Centre (TCRC) in Ooty to consider Badagas as indigenous people of the ...
July in the midst of the Southwest monsoon is the period of Devva-Habba, a significant festival in the annals of the Badagas. OOTY: Potato roasting by lighting a fire in temples and related rituals ...
Badagas in the four corners of the Nilgiris district and elsewhere in the world have greeted with cheer the declaration of a local holiday for their main festival ‘Hethai Habba’. The announcement was ...
NILGIRIS: The honorary director of Nilgiri Documentation Centre Dharmalingam Venugopal has appealed to the state government to withhold the release of Tamil film ‘Brother’ stating a song in the film ...