The second day of Tribal literature Festival at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal was divided in three academic sessions. The session-1st was chaired by Vasant Nirgme and altogether nine papers were presented by the tribal writers/authors. The second session chaired by Anil Boro.
During this session 11 papers were presented on different themes of tribal language and literatures. In both the session the speakers focused on the oral literature of the tribal’s and the endangered tribal language. The speakers have expressed their views, their research and their thought, by narration of poems and songs.
All of the speakers were of the opinion that due to the introduction of modern languages likes English, which is today being considered as the essential language for education as well as for getting the Job. This is the main reason; our children and the present generation do not want to learn their own language, in spite prefer to be educated in modern language system.
Among the other causes, English environment of family, non teaching of tribal language in the family or society like Jowakim warned that if the mother-father do not speak this own language, the same will not be transferred to their children and finally their language will Vanish. During the presentation the Choudhari, Meena, Oraon, Gondi, Kharia, lepcha languages culture of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh were put on before the audience.
The third session was dedicated to the tribal film show. In this show a documentary based on the theme Santhali writings. The film namely ‘The four Santhali Writers’ tries to indicate the necessity and use, as well as the problems in publishing the Santhali language in general and other tribal languages is particular. The session ended with the vote of thanks by the Chaired. Kalanjali, exhibition cum sale of tribal paintings of paper mache, wooden toys, clothes, handicrafts, etc. are being sold at reasonable prices.