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Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim

The film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the slash and burn cultivation of dry rice, and became settled agriculturalists. Entire mountains sides were converted to cardamom and terraced for the cultivation of irrigated paddy. The irrigated rice and the cardamom cash crop not only brought the Lepcha within Sikkim’s market economy but helped create a surplus which could among other things be invested in religion. In the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong embraced Buddhism and all its complex rituals without however abandoning their strong shamanic traditions. Today, both forms of rituals amiably co-exist in the village. This film is part of a long-term visual anthropology training project for the tribal communities of Sikkim.

Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim

NR 2005
The Kesar Saga

The Kesar Saga is an ancient Tibetan epic narrated in the entire Tibetan belt extending to Mongolia, Central Asia and China. In its Ladakhi version, Kesar Saga, has come down through the centuries orally, with story-teller reciting the epic during the long cold winter nights. The story revolves around the exploits of a superhuman hero, ‘Kesar’ and his efforts to establish peace and order in the world. The film rediscovers many story-tellers and reproduces the melodious renderings.

The Kesar Saga

NR 2009