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Tribal Education: How Bhils in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh set an example through ‘Jeevan Shala’

They established and have been running a number of schools in central India’s tribal areas for 30 years, despite government opposition

Adivasis at bottom rung of India’s development pyramid, finds Tribal Development Report 2022

India’s tribal communities have been pushed away from alluvial plains and fertile river basins, into the harshest ecological regions, the …

Ownership Scheme: Why tribals are opposing drone surveys in Jharkhand

Property cards will be issued to villagers after drone surveys are carried out under the Ownership Scheme; but tribals oppose them citing …

Some 200 wild animals killed in annual tribal hunting season in Bengal last month

Supporters of an ancient tribal hunting tradition in Bengal want it to continue; critics oppose it even as hundreds of animals are killed 

International Mother Language Day 2023: Adivasi children in India unable to study in their own tongues needs redressal

Tribal children do not have teachers, reading material or even a proper script for their dialects or languages  

Stop patronising the adivasis, Mr PM; they need dignity, not charity

The government needs to recognise that forest laws need to be flexible enough to accommodate and invite collective participations of local …

Coal mining and India’s tribal peoples: Inequality as the death knell of community

Mining and land dispossession produce new, profound inequalities within Adivasi communities, which erode their traditional egalitarian values

The Dangs: How a remote part of Gujarat has suffered over 200 years on forest rights

Having suffered under both, the British and post-independence governments, even the Forest Rights Act 2006 has been partially and messily …

How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine

With ‘civilisation’ and ‘modernity’ having made inroads into India’s tribal areas, its heritage of traditional …

International Mother Language Day 2023: How an education module in tribal dialects became a game changer in Odisha

An experiment in mother language based education for children from the Kolha tribe showed how developing text books and primers in tribal …

In pictures: These unique ponies in Odisha need to be conserved

Adivasis in the Eastern Ghats of Odisha’s Malkangiri district have relied on a pony breed of unknown origins to transport their produce over …

Simply Put: Life expectancy among minorities

The struggle to get inclusive education to south Odisha’s tribal children

Already marginalised, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on tribal groups, especially children in Koraput; but civil society is trying its best to …

Adivasis in India: Co-existence and stewardship

Much is at stake in how we define co-existence. On the one hand is a largely western legacy of wildlife conservation, while on the other hand, is …

Great Expectations: What will tribal India’s ask be from President Droupadi Murmu

The tribal communities of India hope that as president, Murmu will be able to ameliorate their suffering caused due to a host of factors

This time for Odisha: Hockey World Cup, investments surge. And culture?

In this 2-part series, Charudutta Panigrahi talks about what Odisha should do this year to march ahead on social development

IN PHOTOS: Dev gudis of Bastar get a new lease of life

Across India, sacred groves are known by many names. In Jharkhand, they are generally called sarnas; in Chhattisgarh, dev gudis, which means the …

What if not single-use plastics? Why not leaf cutlery?

Leaf plates and spoons could help in combating climate change and also bring adivasis out of poverty

International Day of Indigenous People: Floods in Godavari shed lights on tribals displaced by Polavaram

Project was hastily thrust on the people in 2004 without any clearances from any government authority

Why India took 75 years to get its first tribal woman president

In the larger scheme of things, where global capital and politics come into the picture, tribal women’s voices are missing

A plea for Odisha’s tribals affected by mining

As Odisha plans to auction its mines in the next few years, an Odia pleads for the communities to be affected the most, the state’s adivasis

We have produced a new guide to decolonise language in conservation

We at Survival want to make people stop and think about why we use the words we do when writing or talking about environmental issues

World Human Rights Day: Is an India free of witch-hunts possible

Cases of witch-branding have been reported from 12 states in India; some 2,300 ‘witches’ were murdered between 1999 and 2003

A new project aims to document India’s customary laws

Documenting customary laws is a step towards community-led conservation