Not so long ago, was i sent to document these tribal homes and there i found two things most emphasized..the symmetry of the santhal homes and the colors that adorned their almost perfectly aligned walls. The tribe has a curious tradition of the men building the shell of their houses and women with their acute aesthetic sense and deft hands taking up the plastering and painting. The colors used are beautiful oxides found at the foothills surrounding these pockets and the results are a matter of envy for the other tribal-folk. During my stay there, i also observed that the santhals regard their granary and their worship space most sacred and these two spaces are normally together which they consider a sacrilege to photograph or sometimes even to enter. The houses are otherwise a traditional courtyard layout, sometimes two of them, one as the hub around which all the rooms are built and another circumferencing the premise for those who have larger families and can afford it. Normally th...