New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) The Idu Mishmi sub-tribe of Arunachal Pradesh's Dibang Valley believes that tigers are their elder brothers. Killing tigers is, for the Idu Mishmi, a taboo. While their ...

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You can have no ego with nature,” explains Tine Mena, a woman from the Idu Mishmi tribe in the state ... in cultural practices related to food, death, prayer, and even hunting.

The Mishmi Hills thus cover a vast expanse of hilly area beyond Sadiya in Assam valley. The Mishmis are divided into three groups on the basis of their geographical distribution: Idu Mishmi, Digaru ...

New Delhi, Jan. 30: Scientists, using bone marrow samples from members of the Idu Mishmi community in Arunachal Pradesh, have discovered a hideout in the human body where tuberculosis bacteria can lie ...

I had read about the cultural practices of the Idu Mishmi community in the valley — taboos around hunting species such as the endangered hoolock gibbon, for instance — but there was so much ...

In 2014, a team of the local Idu Mishmi people led by Dr Sahil Nijhawan placed cameras in the jungles of Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh to understand the distribution of medium and large-sized ...

A great contribution in studying dormant Mycobacterium in TB was made by the Idu-Mishmi community of Arunachal Pradesh and RIWATCH. A great contribution in studying dormant Mycobacterium in TB ...

Arunachal Pradesh has taken a groundbreaking step towards environmental conservation by declaring itself a zero-hunting zone during the 56th Reh Festival celebration of the Idu Mishmi tribe.

Amid the pressures of modern life in Dibang Valley and Lower Dibang Valley districts of Arunachal Pradesh, the Mishmi society is looking at ways to revive its declining shamanistic tradition.