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Madhu Ramnath’s Followers (3)
Madhu Ramnath
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“A society’s self-reliance is usually in inverse proportion to its reverence for the state. In some inexplicable way, the Adivasi of the deep forest showed his disdain for the sahib by wearing less; the threshold of shame increased as one neared the towns where he showed less of himself.”
― Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People
― Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People
“pathar pocha’, a leaf-wiper, an Adivasi. The manner of cleaning one’s bottom is stronger than any other custom in a culture. Most Adivasi people, left to themselves, use leaves. I pursued the rather neglected science of examining the qualities of various species of leaves; even sent my findings to the Kew Bulletin for publication but was turned down as their editorial board found it ‘rather inappropriate’.”
― Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People
― Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People
“Most meals that came from the forest were brought by the women – fish, mushrooms, crab, bamboo shoots, some kuccha or the other. The staples, rice and millet, came from the land.”
― Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People
― Woodsmoke and Leafcups: Autobiographical Footnotes to the Anthropology of the Durwa People
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