
The Uranws are a unique indigenous community living in South-east Nepal. The small community of just over 40 thousand Uranws is highly marginalized but their culture and language continue to flourish in their dense settlements. The Uranw language (also called Kurux or Kudukh) is Nepal's only Dravidian language, they worship nature and build no temples to worship their deities. In this podcast we discuss their songs, folklore, and mythology, which tell stories of their tenacious survival in face of dominance. Uranw mythology traces their journey though the subcontinent in the past few millennia, expressing their sense of loss of land, status, and privilege which characterizes their present life.