 PowerPoint, you can try it out. Yeah, yeah, I have. Yeah, just try it out and then I'll after you're satisfied, I'll start timing. Okay. You can see my screen, right? And I'm audible. Yeah, yeah. So I can see the screen and like your voice is also clear. Okay, should I start the timer then? Yeah, yeah, you can start. Yeah, you can start. Yeah, yeah, my research is about the people group called Panias. They are very small in population. They are in the part of Kerala and borders of Tamil Nadu. Okay, we'll see about them. First, their origin, they are basically from in Kerala, the place called Vayanadu and the Nilgiri district that is in Tamil Nadu. They're basically a laborers working as born laborers under the landlords. It was in the old days. There are a lot of landlords because the Vayanadu is basically filled. There are a lot of the fields. So they bought the Panias to work on their fields. In that time, the land, they are firstly they are bought to work for Malabar King. This place is near to the Vayanad. You can see in the map. But after that, because of the landlords, they're treated as slaves and the born laborers. So that time they were they don't had any rights. So they treated us very, very bad. In that time, in 1975, the Kerala government, they had introduced the law that they should stop the born labor system. So from that time itself, they stopped the born labor system. And now they become daily, they became workers for daily wages. They go for any work that is available, anything like they go for a house building, building and go for cutting trees, anything in the fields as well. So then we can see the language and religion. The Panias, they have their own language. But it sounds like Malayalam and little bit of Tamil. They still they don't have scripts. They only have a language spoken language. And now we'll come to the religion. In religion, it comes the 99% of the Panias are Hindus, very small, very, very small amount of people only in other religions like Christianity and Muslims, I don't I don't know about the Muslims, but they very less Christianity. Yeah, now, as as we can see that now people are converting to Christians slowly. I have an audio sample. If you want to hear that, I can play. Yeah, it's basically like sounds like Malayalam. So okay, we'll go to the next one. It's their appearance and flow performance and musical. It's basically their culture about their culture. Yeah, this is their look. They basically they they are ready, very traditional. They are just like it's like they have over overcloth that is a dough tea. And they wear a dress above the chest, and they tie with the ropes. This is about the looks and they wear a big, big ear earrings. And they have a colorful things they these things they made by themselves, they don't buy from the shops and all not not like that. And it comes to their cultures, they have their own dance called the vertically and complicated. The vertical is basically they together, they are round together and play some dances clapping hands. Kamakali is basically when the harvest time comes, they will play in the landlords fields, celebrating the harvest. They have their music instruments. One is a drum instrument and another one is a pipe instrument. The drum instrument made by a jackfruit tree. And the sound part, the skin is from the monkeys skin. And nowadays, they don't using the monkeys and they're using the gold skin or they occur bullskin. The musical instrument called Udi and Chini, the drum instrument called Udi and the pipe instrument called Chini. You can see the vertically image. This is the vatakali. You can see that this is the Thudi, the drum instrument. This is the Chini, the pipe instrument. Okay, now we'll move on to another thing. They're custom and ritual related to marriage and we can see the modern life of Panias. Paniya marriage, they still follow the traditional style. They have their vatangali in the marriage. The marriage basically happens in evenings. The groom have to pay a price to a bride. In some cases, bride also do that. Or else they have to give a present to the bride. So this is about their marriage ceremony. Still, when the marriage is happening, the whole colonists were together to celebrate the marriage. They will attend every people from their colony. Colonists, basically, they're living place. Everybody will come and they will celebrate the function. Next, we'll see about their death. When a person did, they used to bury them. They don't burn or something else because some people used to bury their bodies. Panias don't do that. What their belief is, they have the belief like some other Hindus. They don't eat meat or anything, something like meat, fish, anything. The non-wage, they don't eat non-wage for seven days when the person died. The entire family, basically the closed ones. And at the seventh day, they have a singing and dancing performance at the grave. But it was showing their sadness about the person's death. Now we can see the modern day Panias. These days, in Tamil Nadu and Kerala government, they introduced a lot of laws against Panias and their developments. So for one to eight standard, we have to study. So in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the teachers themselves go to the colonies and they get the Paniya child into school and they'll teach them. So like that, when they teach, they'll become like us. It means they're not sticking to their tradition, they will come out to the outer world. Now we can move on to our main point. It's about the Christian ministry between Panias. The word that is inspired me in the Bible is one is the Great Commission and another one is Revelation 5.9 and 7.9 to 10. It shows that there will be some of every tribe, tongues, nations and people before the throne. Yeah, God wants everybody to, sorry for the interruption, God wants everybody to come before Him. God wants everybody to be saved. So we have to, the Panias also included with that. We can see the ministry progress, the sources from Joshua project. I see there are very less resources from the Joshua project. There are not much and this is the population. This is called the Paniya population, 1,15,000. This is the old one. Now the current population is 1,95,000 or something like that. You can see as for the mentioned in the image, the largest legion in Panias is Hindus. They are 99.7% of Hindus. They are only 0.38% in Christian. Their progress level is red because the work is to be done, not so, it's just a little bit. Now we will come to the church. There was a person called Sridhar. He is an evangelist and he is also working for the Panias. He says that I contacted him. He says that only two Panias are in the Neelgris. There are other churches as normal. Paniya churches means they are fully Panias. They could come freely. That's about the church. Special ministry works for the Panias and Paniya pastors. They have a translation unit on Manandavadi that is in Kerala. They are doing translation works for Panias. They are translating the audios. When I was 8th or 9th standard, I met a person who is called Bhaskar. He was on the translating team. He said that time they only translated four books, the four gospels, Mathew Mark Luke and John. But currently in 2022, I heard that they translated everything, like the old New Testament. They have the audio of the Old New Testament. Now we can come to Paniya pastors. There are a person called Anil Kumar that is from his warden of my orphanage. The past nine years I was studying there. He helped me with finding the pastors, Paniya pastors. There are a lot of Paniya pastors in Guralur that is in Neelgris, Tamil Nadu. He told me the places. I was in Guralur. I visited those places previously. I don't know about the pastors, but there are a few pastors. Also there was my old friend. His name is Solomon. He is also Paniya, converted as Christian. They were saved. Their whole family was saved. His elder brother is in Andaman. He is studying his BTH in Andaman. So this is about the Paniyas and their ministry works. Any questions? Yeah. So the question? I still have two more ministries. It's okay, right? Yeah, it's fine. So yeah, the question is now, can you just share a little bit about what is the present work which is done among Paniyas? What I've heard is the work is very slow now because the pastor, Bhaskar, he is the one who was handling this system, the Paniya translating and everything. A few years back, I mean two, three years back, his wife got cancer and I think she's passed away. So because of that, he didn't work properly in the team. So the work is very slow. They're still stopped in the translation. That's it. But they have translated the Bible into Tamil. Tamil means the script looks like Tamil, but the sounds are Paniyas. So the modern Paniyas, those who know Tamil to read, they can understand the Bible. So that's the current thing. Right. And so, yeah, so I just want to thank you. So I just wanted to know what is the resistance from the Paniyas towards the gospel and why in your research were you able to find out why is it like every culture, I'm sure there'll be some kind of resistance. Of course, it's normal. But particular to the Paniyas, is there something that you could find out that they resist the gospel predominantly because of this? Can you share? Basically, they don't want to come out. That's the first thing. The other one is the people who go for Paniyas. That also we don't have much people to minister. That's the problem. The my question is, like, why is it that they don't want to come out? I know that's come out of the community. Any particular reason why, you know, is there fear, you know, like in the case of an Islamic community, is there fear that they would be, you know, there would be loss of life or, you know, any particular reason? They're like Hindus only. They don't quickly come out. They have their rituals and they used to follow that only. They're not leaving that. That's the problem. And a lot of people are Hindus, right? As we can see the 99% just people are Hindus. So, yeah. It's very difficult to convince them. That's the problem. Okay, okay. So now you're talking about Paniya churches, like they were two churches. Now, officially, they are Paniyas. Okay, okay. Now, what about other churches? You know, there could be Tamil or Malayalam churches. What are their efforts into, you know, what is the, yeah. There's two things. One is, are they reaching out? What are their efforts into reaching out to the Paniya community? And the second question is, you know, what is their effectiveness? You know, are they effective? What is their effectiveness? These are, I'm talking about the non-Paniya churches, right? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. The few days back, I think four days back, I called my, the hostel mate from the Guralu. He's in the place called Atthipali. I say, I recently mentioned in the draft. So, I asked him to go to the church and see what happens. What he said was, that's a normal church, but there are Paniya pastors. He's assisting with the normal pastor. And also few Paniya families are coming to the churches. They don't have anything. They, like, they normally come. They don't throw anything, something in fear or shy. So, and also the another place, this also, from far from Guralu, the place called Padandra. There also, there was a few Paniyas. I said, previously, I mentioned that my friend Solomon, his family is also there. That church is also there, both Paniyas and normal peoples. It's no issues with them. But few people only feeling something like shy, we can say something like that. But yeah, this is about the thing. Any questions? Yeah, that's it, Kanan. So, in your research methodology, you know, like what, in what, what are the methods that you use to find out the research? Obviously, you know, you're reading from the net and all that is fine. But apart from that, what other efforts did you put in to find out the reasons? About their culture and all the basic things like that mentioned above from the, sorry, apart from the ministry, the other things I've got from internet, but the ministry thinks there is nothing in the internet about the Paniya ministry. So, we can know that the Paniya works are very slow. Now, we'll come to that. I got some very, very small amount of data from JOSHA project and others from mostly from the phone calls only. I don't have time to go there. I'm very, yeah. Okay, so you call them and then you found out? Yeah, I called three peoples. His name is called Sridhar. He's from the translation team. He, okay, then I called the person called Anil Kumar. He's my warden, the home, the children's home. They're in a study. So, he also helped me to collect data. Right? But I didn't go. I couldn't go. Okay. No, you said three persons, no? One is Sridhar. Another one is Samson. He's the son of my warden. So, he's the one who connected to Sridhar for me. Okay. So, anybody from the community, from the Paniya community, any believers? I told right, the friend called Solomon. So, he gave me some thing about the churches. They're churches. No, my question was like... He's from Paniya. From Paniya, okay. Yeah, Solomon. His name is Solomon, friend. He's from Paniyas. Okay. Good. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I think that was good. So, I think we'll stop here. So, next class, we can have... We can start with Prince. Prince, you can present. And then Kiran, Thomas, they can follow. So, who else are we... Just one second. Let me just stop the recording.