Help preserve India's living culture
Share a recipe, song, craft, ritual, festival, story or word from your family, village or community before it is forgotten.
Much of India's culture lives in people's memories: a grandmother's recipe, a harvest song, a weaving pattern, a local festival or a word used in only one valley. When the last person who knows it is gone, it is gone for ever.
What you can share
- Recipes and food traditions, with how and when they are made.
- Folk songs, stories, proverbs and games.
- Crafts, art forms and the families who keep them alive.
- Local festivals, rituals and customs, and what they mean.
- Words and phrases from endangered languages and dialects.
How it works
Every submission is checked by the admin before it is published, and you are credited by your username. Please share only what you have the right to share, and give a source if it comes from a book or website.
The Government of India also maps village culture under the National Mission on Cultural Mapping (Mera Gaon, Meri Dharohar) and documents endangered languages through the Central Institute of Indian Languages.