The humble gourd is falling out of favour

Gourd has sculpted the culture and traditions of rural India for ages 

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Chhattisgarh can now access contraceptives

High Court quashes decades-old practice of denying rights to Baigas and other tribes

Lit by biofuel

Hudhud causes heavy rains across Chhattisgarh

Extensive agricultural damage expected

Sapped for sal seed

Despite abundant produce, seed collecting Baigas earn little

Tree is not timber

Role models

Two Madhya Pradesh villages break free of debts, Naxalites

Mahan coal block gets clearance

Forest rights of Baigas scuttled to clear way to mine dense forest

How Chhattisgarh’s Baiga tribe secured habitat ownership in the face of eviction threats

State initially tried to ward off petition to grant habitat rights to community by saying there is no ministry-prescribed format

Winds of change in tribal villages

A slew of measures like horticulture, beekeeping, polycropping and creation of water harvesting structures guarantee income augmentation among …

Preserving Assam’s indigenous culture: Government’s step for dedicated department felicitous

Greatest danger to Assam’s tribal identity is domination by western influence 

Yamilicious!

During her visit to Indore, Aparna Pallavi tickles her taste buds with crispy fried purple yam or garadu and discovers the health benefits of the …

Stop illegal eviction of tribes from Kanha Tiger Reserve, urge activists

While a few environmentalists claim that tribes encourage poaching in forests, others believe they help in conservation

Peepal power

The Baiga tribe in Madhya Pradesh never misses the opportunity to savour the tender leaves of peepal

Hunger strikes forest’s exiles

Once called lords of the jungle, Baiga groups in Madhya Pradesh are starving on the margins of Kanha National Park. Shriya Mohan chronicles their …

Baiga agriculture can solve problems that plague modern systems

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Indigenous people in India and the web of indifference

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we bring together the stories of exclusion, oppression, and at times, recognition

Tiger tour operators' incidental love: tribals

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava's take on tour operators' claim that tourism in core areas of reserves is good for tribals

Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

Baigas cheated of community forest rights

Madhya Pradesh village given rights over agricultural and residential land instead of forestland

Baigas in exile

Once called lords of the jungle, the Chhattisgarh tribals are being evicted without adequate relief

Deo slams MP government for denying forest rights to tribals in Mahan

Union tribal affairs minister says villagers’ consent to mining by Hindalco and Essar comprised more than 11,000 forged signatures