Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion, edited by Abhay Xaxa and Ganesh Devy, contains 11 essays on various themes ranging from constitutional and legal measures from “the Adivasi question” ...

As G.N. Devy, the editor of Being Adivasi with the late Abhay Xaxa, shares in his introduction: ‘I would like to hope that it is received not just as a publication or academic exercise but as a ...

Sri Lanka’s indigenous Adivasi community—the Vedda people—have historically maintained a diet of kurakkan roti and game meat. They are also known to have various indigenous cures and treatments for ...

An accomplished Nazrul Sangeet artiste, Zannat-E-Ferdousi, is devoted to another cause as well. Ferdousi has been working as the director of advocacy at Research and Development Collective (RDC) for ...

Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...

In 2017, Korchi taluka in Gadchiroli district of Vidarbha in Maharashtra was gearing up for the Raavan dahan event on Dussehra. It was to be a regular evening with the effigy of the demon king going ...

Delhi: The revered Adivasi Hair Oil, meticulously crafted by the Hakki Pikki community using 108 medicinal herbs, is facing a troubling wave of counterfeit products. With a rich tradition spanning 62 ...

Adilabad: The Covid19 pandemic has started showing its negative impact on the education of adivasi students in old Adilabad and the state in general. The pandemic has hurt the schooling system.

Adivasi Mela in April! In a deviation from the cultural calendar Odisha government hosted Adivasi Mela at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Adivasi Mela this year has also coincided with ...

When I first started writing Hindi poems, I heard people from the Hindi literary world say: “The voice in your poems is masculine and feminine at once. This makes it hard to guess the poet’s gender.” ...

For many millennia, tribal communities in India have lived with the Gandhian ideals of respect for all creation, harmonious and sustainable co-existence with the universe — a nurturing, rather than ...

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