Field stories: Maṅgana kāyile sanśōdhane (Research on Monkey Fever)

Shivamogga is a district of Karnataka which is known as the rice bowl of the state.  Agricultural land covers 32% of the entire area of the district. It is one of the areas affected by the Monkey Fever or Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD). KFD is a tick-borne viral haemorrhagic disease which is caused by Kyasanur…

‘Garh’, Mahua, Its People and Few Questions

By Abhijit Dey ‘Now everyone enters the forest by themselves to collect Mahua (flowers). They divided the trees like this is mine, that one yours. There was a time when the entire village used to go to collect Mahua. Those days are lost, those days have gone…’                …