Budhan Stories S2E4: Corona, Snakes and Vaccine
Episode 4 of Season 2 - Corona, Snakes and Vaccine episode explores traditional snake charmer communities; who lives in small hamlets in forest area. The Madari tribe is a nomadic tribe and they normally follow their own traditional medicines and are reluctant to use allopathic medicines. Madari tribe people were very reluctant to take vaccination because they believed that it is a way to reduce the population and people would die after the vaccination. So such a wonderful people, clever but extremely traditional faced Corona in their own ways.
Created (Author) by: Chetna Rathid. Participants: Budhan Theatre, Dakxin Chhara, Atish Indrekar, Ruchika Kodekar, Chetna Rathod, Kushal Batunge, Keyur Bajrange, Anish Garange, Siddharth Garange, Alice Tilche, Akshay Khanna, Yashodara Udupa, Anshul Agrawal, Ankita Jain, Babunath Madari, Sonaben Madari, Nainnath Madari.
Supplementary materials include short clips, photographs, poster and subtitles.
Funding
Using the arts to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 among India's indigenous and nomadic communities
UK Research and Innovation
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