For Akla Chamar, owning even a small land parcel meant security. For two decades, the 80-year-old farmer held on to government documents that identify him to be the “bhu-swami”, or land owner of 2.23 ...

Dumbi, a tall, muscular teenager, walks silently outside his village, which consists of about 70 houses, mostly of the Adivasi Ho community, in Jharkhand. The sixteen-year-old lost his father when he ...

Last week, the Janjati Suraksha Manch (JSM) and Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, both Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) progeny, held a conclave in Delhi — “Janjati Sanskritik Samagam” — attended by thousands ...

Deep inside Tamil Nadu’s Gudalur valley, an unusual school teaches geometry through forest leaves and culture through song. How this Adivasi-led model is transforming education is drawing growing ...

Adilabad: Mesram Ramu, 25, a self-taught Adivasi artist, is striving to preserve his community’s unique culture and traditions through his paintings and carry them forward to future generations. He ...

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The poem and essay frame India’s land conflict as a battle between Adivasis defending livelihood and rulers pursuing capitalist “development.” The piece exposes a moral double standard where power, ...

State policies have criminalised the Adivasi way of life; from the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 to establishing the Central Proof Range, statutes are being used to turn ancestral forests into ...

Bitiya Murmu’s father died around 1980, when she was just a year-and-a-half old. As the family members grieved their loss, they did not realise that for the next two decades, their lives would be ...

Developing an AI-based translation solution for a popular language is child’s play for Natural Language Processing experts. But it is not the same case with hinterland languages, which don’t have ...

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Nalgonda: A 17-year-old Adivasi girl was allegedly gangraped by a few auto drivers in Yedugurallapally village of Bhadrachalam agency area on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border. The incident, which ...