I am second standard dropout, then he learned the trade from my father when he was young.
Yallappa, 56
We were traveling between Huballi and Belagam and we encountered Helavaru nomad, for these people traditional profession of the community entails recording births, deaths, marriages and other familial issues in an encapsulated manner, which in Kannada roughly translates to “narrate”, the members of this semi-nomadic community go about narrating histories of almost all families in villages of all north Karnataka districts.
Yallappa, 56 explains, he was a second standard dropout, then he learned the trade from his father when he was young, explaining the process of archiving. Similar to other tribal communities the Helavas are also facing a threat when it comes to their practice. The age of modernization and digitization has pushed their tradition into the darkness, making it next to obsolete.
