‘Lost Lullabies : Tale of vanishing indigenous people of Nilambur Valley, South India’ pro- vides a glimpse of the bygone days of the in-digenous people in the forest. Their narratives shows how their life and culture were in tune with the lullabies of nature and how they lost these lullabies in the course of time for the reasons known and unknown to them. The first chapter, ‘Square pegs in round holes: Perceptions of hunter-gatherer school drop- outs of Kerala, South India’ is an in-depth enquiry into the subjective experiences of the Ashram school drop-outs of Cholanaicken and Kattunayakan (including Pathinaicken) tribes of Nilambur forests of Kerala. This article was first appeared in The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol-66, No. 3-4, 2014. The second chapter, ‘Social support for hunter-Gatherers: Care or curse?’ is a special article in Economic and Political Weekly (Vol. XLIV. No.36, 2009). It tries to understand, from an emic perspective, the different dimensions of social support among the Cholanaickan, a hunter-gatherer community of Kerala. It reveals why the support system extended by the State has ended as being perceived as a ‘curse’ rather than as ‘care’.