: Meet the young Indians who are bringing an Adivasi language into the digital age #IndiaNEWS Over a video call, Ganesh Birua excitedly flips the camera to show a tree sitting in front of the school.

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Meet the young Indians who are bringing an Adivasi language into the digital age #IndiaNEWS
Over a video call, Ganesh Birua excitedly flips the camera to show a tree sitting in front of the school. This is the only place in his entire village where his phone gets network service. When he is not at work, this is where he spends much of his time, obsessively pursuing his life’s calling: spreading the Adivasi language of Ho on the internet.Birua’s face breaks into a grin when he is asked to describe his journey. He adjusts the oversized earpads of his black headphones sitting snug against his wavy hair and begins. The year was 2014. He was staying in a hostel in Baripada, a town 100 kilometres from his village of Dighiabeda in Odisha, doing an arts course. At the hostel, a friend mentioned Facebook and the idea of the social media platform intrigued him. Nobody from his village had ever been on the internet, he says.Birua created a profile and promptly joined the Facebook group Ho Society of India. From the group, he learned something nobody had told him before – that his tribe, Ho, has a script called Warang Citi. The hitch was, “I couldn’t see our script anywhere online,� the 23-year-old recounted in Hindi.An inspired Birua took...Read more

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