Tribal Rights

How democracy has failed India’s adivasis

The process of injustice that began with the imperial forest department intensified under our forest departments. Forest laws dispossessed the adivasis from their habitats.

Despite crackdown, Pathalgadi movement survives in Jharkhand, may result in low voter turnout in Khunti, Arki, Murhu blocks

Several of the villages in Jharkhand's Villagers Arki, Murhu, and Khunti blocks which supported the Pathalgadi movement are likely to witness low voter turnout during the Lok Sabha polls for 14 seats in the state

Odisha's tribals who gather and sell minor forest produce left at the mercy of dysfunctional market with no govt support

The Odisha government has plenty of funds to implement the Forest Rights Act to benefit tribals, so it can't blame a low budget for the poor enforcement of the law.

Wildlife is too important to left to establishment; power must be given to people whose habitat is steamrolled

If states implement the recent Supreme Court order mandating the eviction of over 10 lakh forest-dwellers, there will, effectively, be blood on our conscience, or the tatters that remain of it

Farmers' march: Maharashtra govt's 'lukewarm' response cause for repeated protests; drought relief, MSP hike demands unmet

The farmers' march from Thane to Mumbai also comes amid many similar rallies being held in other parts of the country, including the 'Kisan Kranti Yatra' on 23 September and the protest led by the Congress' farmers' cell on 23 October.

Over 20,000 Maharashtra farmers begin protest march from Thane to Mumbai; demands include drought compensation, loan waiver

The farmers protest is being led by the Lok Sangharsh Morcha (LSM). Swaraj Abhiyan chief and former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav and conservationist Dr Rajendra Singh will also be at the forefront of the protests

Activists move Jharkhand HC over FIR alleging sedition, say they're being targeted for supporting tribal rights

Several Jharkhand-based activists have moved Jharkhand High Court with a petition demanding quashing of an FIR registered against them.

NRC in Assam: Call for Inner Line Permit grows in North East as local groups launch drives to keep 'migrants' out

A day after the publication of NRC final draft, NGOs in states neighbouring Assam launched drives to check illegal migration to their state. In Meghalaya, non-tribal travellers were harassed at infiltration check posts, in Manipur groups attacked non-local vendors

India has many nationalisms; BJP’s is only one of them

BJP's religious nationalism is the main reason why so many people wanted the party to decline in Gujarat, no matter what their political affiliation is

Chandrababu Naidu's haste over 'flawed' Polavaram dam a concern; project violates forest rights act, say experts

Instead of addressing 'injustice’ done to tribals, the Chandrababu Naidu govt of Andhra Pradesh is extending it by ignoring procedures and rules in the construction of the Polavaram dam on Godavari river