Govind Hamram is a 60-year-old Santhal farmer and healer. He takes us on a journey through his world of hodopathy, on how he finds the herbs, the process of making the cures and how it is different from other treatments. And does it take community to save a forest?

Doctor in the Forests

Storytellers would travel from village to village, narrating stories on lives, livelihoods, cultures, values, knowledge systems, codes of conduct, divisions of labour, food systems, sociopolitics, and their relationships to their natural habitats. Somewhere along the way, this old practice started dying out, leaving precious local knowledge in the past. We bring stories from local and indigenous communities about the rich rural life.

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