Away from the rat race

Villagers and rural communities, warts and all, can still be places where you can regain your lost spirituality and your moral equilibrium if you …

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

In Mowgli's land

ANJOLI BANDYOPADHYAY visits Pench Tiger Reserve, the site of many a conservation scheme and finds the woes wrought upon the people there by …

Against the grain

The new votaries of Forest Rights Act

Is it the upcoming elections that are prompting states to focus on FRA and win hearts of the tribal people? wonders Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

State V Dongria Kondhs

Short-circuiting discrimination or perpetuating them?

Nutrition programmes for Dalits need institutions to deliver and a vigilant citizenry to monitor implementation

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

Dongrias decide

Niyamgiri gears up for India’s first environment referendum. Odisha limits number of villages that can have a say

Undermined

Ordinance to reform the mining sector will do more harm than good

Cash transfers do not benefit

Jitendra visited three districts in Rajasthan to meet people who are supposed beneficiaries of UPA government’s much-touted Direct Benefit …

Halfway through

Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise

Roundtable on Minor Forest Produce: Introduction

Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science and Environment, discusses the confusion surrounding the Forest Rights Act and forest management.

Roundtable: Is Bamboo a Minor Forest Produce?

The MFP roundtable participants discuss what constitutes a minor forest produce and whether bamboo fits its definition.   Read Sunita …

SC notice to Chhattisgarh on the way tribal advisory councils function

Centre issues circular clarifying governors have special role in supervising governance of tribal areas to ensure partial autonomy

Infant deaths continue in Attappady

As advisor to prime minister visits the tribal block panchayat, activists demand special care for pregnant adivasi women

Tribals protest brutality, destruction of plantations by forest officials

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

Healthcare services for adivasis in a shambles

Pregnant, anaemic, adivasi women do not even get iron tablets

Tribal affairs ministry gets cracking on apex court’s order on Vedanta

Odisha government gets a slew of orders to ensure the order is properly implemented

Fifth Schedule - Not a happy anniversary

Sixty-six years after B R Ambedkar introduced it, the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, which grants powers to tribal people over their land …

To protect or to empower?

Parliamentary standing committee reiterates its demand to bring Jarawas into mainstream

Anganwadis in Attappady fail to deliver

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General points to neglect by state

Jarawas: to protect or not

Government’s expert panel against bringing the tribe into the mainstream

A provision in need of serious review

The Fifth Schedule has remained mired in confusion and politicking

Sinking in illicit liquor

Most men in tribal hamlets spend all their wages on hooch and women are doomed to shoulder the burden of their families