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The tale of a tribe: A peek into India's fascinating Baiga tribe.

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  In concrete jungles entwined in fiber optic vines and content in our own niches, as a generation most, if not all of us might have lost touch with earth or directly depend on it for our sustenance and day-to-day survival as is understandable. Living separate lives with diverse identities, genders, social statuses, and whatnot, the one commonality that bridges all the gaps fuelled by diversity and connects us organically, is us all sharing one planet. While looking at the evolution of modern man, our very own ancestors depended exclusively on nature and their surroundings for survival. While nature nurtured us across the geological time scale into beings not entirely dependent on forests, rivers and ecosystems, there still exist pockets of communities in the world and in our country, strictly dependent on the earth for their sustenance, spiritual satiation and identity; communities of Homo sapiens existing far from the grasps of an urban sprawl.   India has an abundantly ri...