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Tribal influencers fight everything from Covid to child labour with cellphones | India News

The art of showcasing talent online and influencing audiences is a common phenomenon now. But Arjun Pawara is not your typical Internet star. The 32-year-old is a founding member of Aadiwasi Janjagruti a network of 45 tribal youths across 200 villages in the interiors of Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district using just their mobile phones and the power of hyperlocal news to script, enact, shoot, edit and upload sketches, short films and documentaries that combat discrimination, promote literacy, report corruption and enable a two-way flow of information between communities and local authorities. They’ve been especially busy during the pandemic. To sensitise people about the risks of Covid, they used a dialogue from the film Krantiveer to create a twominute video clip with Nana Patekar’s face and Pawara’s voice and this was probably the most powerful thing going around the district at the time.

Tribal influencers fight everything from Covid to child labour with cellphones

Tribal influencers fight everything from Covid to child labour with cellphones
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