Summary Of Still The Children Are Here

Still, the Children Are Here “Still, the children are here” a documentary about a village in northeast India .The people of Sadolpara, a small village occupied by the Garos. A society that lives just like their ancestors did they plant their own rice to eat and store. This society is isolated living in their own world with their old ceremonies for agriculture, believing in tradition gods and they have a different gender role.
The Garos houses are from the lush bamboo forests that surround them. There were two building in the village the first was school, where the children get educated even though it is small local school and strict as it should be still the parent did care about their children education. The other building was the church
The women cannot do anything without men no work and no house, which puts the women in a weak position even though she plays an important role in every culture and society. The women used some traditional way to fish while men went diving. Both men and women work on the field even the children help the parent with rising the animal or taking care of their young sibling. I noticed from one story in the movie that the husband and wife have strong bond even though it was an arranged marriage, the man left his wife and children for some time but he came back because he could not bear to stay away from his family. The people in the village know each other, sometimes they go to the market to buy food, tobacco, and fish to sit and chat. They kept the soil rich for generation by crop rotation and burning fields, but because the wood is now sold rather than left to rot and enhance the land. As a result, the harvests become lower. Now they threatened by the agricultural change and the outside market, their society based on the natural order but the world is changing around them and they start to notice that this is no longer