A dimension within Youth & Heritage Future
Focusing on how youth engage with and preserve cultural heritage and languages.
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Overall Community Sentiment
AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
Amidst modern stresses, our community finds strength and identity in safeguarding traditional knowledge and cultural practices through the wisdom of elders.
We pass on traditional and new tribal knowledge from elders to young people through organized camps, ensuring it endures for future generations.
We ensure our children's well-being and cultural continuity by teaching them about the forest's bounty and the richness of our ancestral language and traditions.
In our jungle villages, we cherish and pass down traditional crops like Majeri, along with the knowledge of local herbs and cultural practices, for the benefit of future generations.
Today, our youth generation is forgetting our culture, customs, and traditions, so it is very important to keep them alive to maintain them in every coming generation.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
Today's youth generation is forgetting our culture, customs, and traditions, so their preservation is essential.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
The current young generation is forgetting its culture, so we should protect it.
— Kekti Tekam · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Today's generation has started forgetting our spoken language, culture, customs, and traditions. It is important to save them to keep alive the practices of our ancestors.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
If we want to preserve our language, tradition, dance, and songs, we must teach them to the next generation.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We must inform the coming generations, our children, about our heritage and old traditions so that we do not abandon them.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture so that future generations also know about our cultural traditions.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our dance songs are getting lost in old customs and traditions. Therefore, we should teach them to our children.
— Anupama Mahanand · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Language, song, and dance are disappearing, the next generation should preserve them.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
We have to preserve our culture so that the coming generation can use it.
— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
It is important to preserve our culture because our new generation will know about it.
— Pankajini Chhatria
We should protect our culture so that future generations come to know about this traditional culture and knowledge, and they do not forget their language. If we do not protect it, the indigenous community will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our own language, cultural dances, and songs are all getting hidden, which is why children don't know about them. Therefore, we must preserve them from being hidden.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our cultural games, dances, songs, rituals, and festivals should not be forgotten; the coming generation might forget them, which is why they need to be preserved.
— Laxmi
It is essential to preserve culture as our traditional knowledge and skills are becoming modernized day by day. The younger generation wants to forget everything and move towards new directions.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We must preserve our culture so that future generations know our culture, keep it alive, and prevent it from disappearing.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
It is essential to preserve our culture as the younger generation is moving towards modernity.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We should preserve our culture because it is important to raise our next generation and for them to know.
— Pankajini Chhatria
The culture and traditions of our society, if not passed on to the next generation, will gradually disappear. Therefore, it is our definite responsibility to pass them on to the next generation.
— KARUKAR MURMU
Our tribe must preserve its culture to carry traditional knowledge from one generation to another.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
The traditional conversations, food, culture, and tradition-based festivals of tribal people are gradually disappearing. Our elders should hand these over to the current young generation to preserve them.
— Santosh Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha
We should preserve our culture to pass it from this generation to the next.
— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The customs, traditions, and culture of our community are on the verge of disappearing, so we must protect them so that they remain alive for future generations.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We must preserve our culture because it is important for our future generations.
— Pankajini Chhatria
It is essential for us to pass on our culture, civilization, dance, music, and traditional food to the new generation.
— bachcha lal · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We need to preserve our culture because if all cultures are lost, the coming generation, our children, will forget all songs, dances, and traditions. Therefore, it is necessary to protect and preserve its literature.
— James Sabar · Khilamunda1, Rayagada, Odisha
We should preserve our cultural traditions, games, dances, songs, stories, conversations, and all these for the next generation.
— Priti majhi
We should preserve our culture so that future generations know about it and the culture remains alive.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
We should protect our culture because it is important to tell our future generation and it is important for them to know.
— Pankajini Chhatria
We should preserve our culture so that our future generations, our children, will be safe and will also keep our traditions alive, preserving our customs and culture.
— jitendra khila · Lachery, Malkangiri, Odisha
We need to preserve our traditions because our future generations will forget them. And now they will follow rules. Our community identity...
— Trinath badanayak · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha
We are slowly forgetting the knowledge passed down by our elders. We need to preserve the knowledge taught by them. We should save our culture because we are indigenous people, and indigenous culture every
— Kamlesh Katara · Malmatha, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
We should preserve our culture so that knowledge can be passed from one generation to another through our songs and dances.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We have to protect our culture so that our daily dance, music, etc., continue to the next generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Culture should be preserved so that the new generation can learn something.
— संगीता मीणा · Metali, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
We must preserve old traditions like dance, music, cuisine, and herbs for our future generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If our tribal traditions are not received by the next generation, they will gradually disappear. Whatever culture exists, if it is conveyed to the next generation, it will remain.
— KARUKAR MURMU
It is essential that we preserve our culture so that our traditional knowledge can be kept alive; otherwise, we will move towards modernity and forget everything.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Because for the knowledge of our tradition and culture to the next generation.
— अमर जीत · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should protect our culture so that our generation can know about us.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
