The Irula tribe in southern India has a long-standing tradition of safely extracting venom from some of the world’s deadliest snakes. This practice is essential for the production of life-saving ...

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Supriya Sahu shared a video on her social media that will surely give you goosebumps. We all know bites from a venomous snake can be fatal. Ms Sahu shared a ...

India has a deep connection with snakes which goes beyond mythology, legends and temples. It’s a fact that across the country ...

What is it like to be the first person from a village to attend school and college? We ask Sangeetha Chinnasamy, the first girl from the Irula tribe to have accomplished this feat. Sangeetha belongs ...

B. Srimathi, a young Adivasi woman from the Irula community, remembers how, as a child, she would walk five kilometers from her home in a village near Sholur Mattam in Kil Kotagiri, to go to school, ...

In a lesser known part of Kil Kotagiri in the picturesque Nilgiris, a singular spire rises above the surrounding terrain. Measuring over 400 feet, the spire, known as Rangaswami Pillar, is worshipped ...

VILLUPURAM: Twenty-two Irula families from T Parangini village in Vannur resorted to a sit-in protest at the Villupuram Revenue Divisional Officer’s office on Thursday demanding that M Dhanalakshmi of ...

CHENNAI: Around 160 tribal families who migrated to Panchatirthi village in Thiruporur Taluk have been living in misery for the past decade. Devoid of basic amenities like electricity and drinking ...