The tribe that disappeared

For over five decades, the Durua tribe in Orissa was not recognised because of a mistake in the Centre's list of scheduled tribes made in 1951...

The virtual reality of being Indian

The remoteness of 190 villages in Orissa's undivided Koraput district is an elegy on governance. Over five decades, living in islands inside huge …

Cyclone Hudhud: experience from Koraput

The storm damaged houses, crops and livestock of people in the tribal belt but government has not even taken note of it

Over a coffee farm

Orissa tribals struggle to regain cashew rights

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

Your gods are mine

Cultural appropriation leads to ecological distress in Odisha

Rice intensification for increasing productivity

System of Rice Intensification is new mantra for reducing water usage and increasing productivity

Land rights and wrongs

Sops in naxal areas

Fruits of struggle

Odisha worries over safety of dams in way of Hudhud

Officials try to figure out how to drain water from the dam reservoirs before heavy rains begin Sunday morning

Naxals target NALCO mines

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

UN heritage status for Odisha's Koraput farming system

Indigenous knowledge and farming practices of the region's tribal people recognised for promoting food security and conserving biodiversity

Mining for people

New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people

Saving rice

Rice is at the heart of a fierce strategy debate as the country prepares to launch the second Green Revolution in the eastern states. …

CAG lists Nalco’s many environmental aberrations

The audit agency says Nalco is liable for legal action for violations of environmental clearance terms

Quail farming brings joy to Koraput’s tribal residents in COVID-19 times

Quail farming requires little capital and labour and involves less risk of disease, say experts

Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 teenagers rescued

The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station 

Won’t allow bauxite mining on Mali Hill: Agitators ransack meeting in Koraput village

The Mali Hill in Koraput is the source of several streams, home to medicinal trees and is an elephant corridor, protestors say

Turmeric soaps pave way for financial independence of Koraput’s tribal women

Around 1,2000 tribal women in the area have managed to eke out a living making turmeric soaps

COVID-19: How Koraput's tribal women hawkers are trying to recover livelihoods

The pandemic restricted the mobility of the women street vendors, pushing them to sell their wares online.

International Coffee Day: Coffee cultivation transforming tribal lives in Odisha’s Koraput

Many Adivasis in Odisha’s Koraput have prospered in recent years after turning to coffee farming from shifting cultivation