As time passes, stories that may have been set in the ancient past can still raise issues that remain relevant, and mirror present day concerns. The dialectic between the traditional and the modern is thus wonderfully balanced in the oral tradition. Unfortunately, oral renditions of stories are dying out as an art form because of lack of recognition and patronage. Once, the only mode of expression, today it has been reduced to a minor art form, withering away due to lack of encouragement. For the adivasi people, marginalized and dispossessed over centuries, oral traditions have been an important form of expression.
Oral traditions speak of aspirations, joys, anguish, dilemmas, dissatisfaction and dissent.
In fact, these traditions are inextricably woven into the fabric of traditional life-styles. Adivasi people have effectively used this as a vehicle to express and put forth their opinions on various matters. It has united them and given them a social, literary and cultural identity of their own. In the rapidly changing and globalizing society, the art of oral rendition is on gradual decline. Adivasi people however, are no longer speaking and singing their stories as frequently.