Remembering Debjeet Sarangi, Defender of Adivasi Knowledge and Heritage

Remembering Debjeet Sarangi, Defender of Adivasi Knowledge and Heritage
Sarangi's Living Farms gave countless people a glimpse of a new worldview – that of the Kondh communities of Odisha – as well as inspiration to protect it.
Debjeet Sarangi. Photo: Twitter
Rights17/May/2021
I knew Debjeet Sarangi for nearly 18 years, and kept discovering and rediscovering him throughout. At a memorial meeting this week – after his death from COVID-19 on May 15, at the age of just 53 – I learnt new facets I had not known: new surprises tucked away in what he was.
I learnt, for instance, that Debjeet never had many opportunities in his formal education. I’d never really wondered about it. He would read and quote from all kinds of books, and was well-versed in the discourse and practice of many sectors of the development world. And he was constantly learning from Adivasi communities, and other communities too, making him especially ‘educated’, in a civilisational sense.

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