Bastar: Bastar of Chhattisgarh is recognized all over the world for its art and culture. Over the years, the tribals have kept it as it is, but gradually the impression of culture and traditions is slowing down in the younger generation. Keeping this in mind, a special campaign has been started by Bastar district administration through Badal Academy to preserve the traditional customs, dialect, food and folk arts of various primitive communities of Bastar. In this sequence, special training was given to the youth for tattooing.
Tattoos are in vogue these days all over the world. In different ways, people not only in the country but abroad consider it as a medium of personal expression on their body, but in Bastar this tattoo, tattooing has been going on for generations. Generation after generation, it has become an important means of expression of not only individual but also society’s culture and traditions. Different groups of primitive community register tattoos on their bodies in different ways. Like the primitive dialect of the tribals, tattoos are inscribed on the body to show their specialty.
Keeping this in mind, Badal Academy has been started by the district administration Bastar on the initiative of the Chief Minister of the state. This institute is especially working to preserve the primitive culture, folk tradition, folk culture of Bastar. In this, the primitive tattooing practice is being developed in a modern and safe form along with things related to their traditions, stories, beliefs.
For this, special training was also given, so that the youth would be able to introduce the special culture of Bastar to the people outside through tattooing in a more hygienic way, soon in the tourist centers Bastar artists of tattooing continued for more than a thousand years in Bastar. To introduce the tourists to the special culture of
first published:June 6, 2022, 4:38 pm