The construction of the ‘adivasi’ community can be seen as a political act, which attempted to provide an alternative discourse to counter the paternalistic ideology of the State, which used the term, ...

Odisha finds itself at a remarkable point in its political journey. For the first time, a slew of Adivasi leaders from the state have occupied commanding positions in state and national politics, ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

The Bangladesh Adivasi Forum has put forward 12 demands, including constitutional recognition for Adivasi communities, and the arrest of those responsible for recent attacks on Adivasi students and ...

The much-delayed gazette notification for the Census which is to be held in 2027, has been rightly criticised for a lack of clarity on the promised caste enumeration. But there is hardly any ...

The Chattogram Hill Tracts Commission has condemned the attack on indigenous students protesting the removal of images featuring the word “Adivasi” – a collective term for a number of ethnic minority ...

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 ...