Hyderabad, April 4 -- It is that time of the year when children learn new skills and improve on existing skills by attending summer camps. The Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute (TCR&TI), a cultural wing of the tribal welfare department, is going a notch higher this year, by not only conducting a summer camp for children, but also for women.

Last summer, TCR&TI held a summer camp for children on tribal art forms at the TRI's new building at DSS Bhavan in Masab Tank (beside the Nehru Centenary Tribal Museum). They are repeating the same this year, with a new opportunity for women to learn fabric painting on garments with tribal art.

"The motive is to promote tribal art, which should also be useful to everyone," Shailaja, the...