Education for tribals: Bottlenecks and the way forward

Recognising tribal culture, language, cognitive strength, curriculum and inherent learning ability of children can revamp tribal education system

The humble gourd is falling out of favour

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

Gond tribals, Madhya Pradesh government fight for 4000 hectares of land

Two government departments and landless people are locked in a legal battle over 4,000 ha in Madhya Pradesh whose outcome would have countrywide …

Opening to the past

Lit by biofuel

Bite into bitters

Maharashtra tribals’ way of warding off monsoon maladies

FRA comes to the rescue of people displaced by Salwa Judum

The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs decides to conduct a survey of the displaced people who had fled to Andhra Pradesh and Telengana, in order …

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

The Gond kingdoms

The first historically recorded Gond kingdoms came up in central India’s hilly region in the 14th and 15th century AD

Legend of Kachchargadh

The fascinating story of how the Gond tribe came into being

Seven brotherhoods and the love of trees, animals and birds

Gond religious beliefs and social organisation

Fight for survival: MP's Chutka village holds out against proposed nuclear power project

Dadu Lal Kundapa has galvanised 54 tribal villages to say no forced evictions for the second time in four decades

Restore malgujari tanks to irrigate eastern Vidarbha: study

Irrigation potential of 125,000 ha unused since 1950

Man sacrificed in Odisha to ‘prevent COVID-19’

Crime committed by priest in a temple in Cuttack district

MGNREGA wages not paid for seven months in Amaravati

Social activists inform Bombay High Court

BPL millionaires

Industrial houses use tribals as fronts to amass tribal land in Chhattisgarh

Mendha Lekha residents gift all their farms to gram sabha

Village does away with private ownership of land, saying it will lead to a stronger community.

Protectors dubbed criminals

Tribals in Madhya Pradesh celebrate festival to reclaim forests; officials say they are encroaching land

Kawal sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh declared tiger reserve

State government claims rights of the forest communities will be protected

Tribals protest brutality, destruction of plantations by forest officials

Villager dies following brutal beating; police claims heart attack is the cause

Fruits of afforestation

Adivasis in southern Madhya Pradesh see salvation from malnutrition in a drive to plant fruit trees