Kamla Kaka, 25, Tribal Activist Why were you angry with the CRPF? At night on 28 June, we were attending a seed festival in our village when CRPF personnel surrounded us and started firing. Many of us lay down on… Continue Reading →
5 November 2012 By Zubair Ahmed BBC Hindi, Mumbai There is no water or electricity supply in the settlement and villagers have to walk for miles to get water On the plateau of a verdant hill range, near India‘s commercial capital,… Continue Reading →
In Vidarbha, a village of the damned Sukhada Tatke TNN, Nov 4, 2012 Unmindful of the scorching heat and the iron chains around his legs and hands, Raju alias Rajendra Dhere crouches on the ground, tracing his name in the… Continue Reading →
TNN | Oct 30, 2012 KEONJHAR: Fear of displacement stalks tribals inhabiting Banspal block of Keonjhar district abutting the beautiful Khandadhar waterfall with hundreds of companies, including South Korean steel behemoth Posco, applying for lease to mine the Khandadhar hill. A Niyamgiri-type… Continue Reading →
A compplaint lettre to Medical Council of India The Chairman, Medical Council of India, New Delhi Dear Sir: Please find attach a pamphlet circulated by the NIMS Medical College and Hospital (NIMS University), Shobha Nagar, Jaipur – Delhi Highway, Jaipur… Continue Reading →
Dr Haneef from Khammam in Andhra Pradesh is talking to Sodey Bhimamma a Gondi Adivasi from Chhattisgarh outside a court. Bhimamma has been sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment on charges of murdering her husband. She tells Dr Haneef that… Continue Reading →
About 170 members of the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa tribe in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul have threatened to commit mass suicide if they are evicted from their agricultural farm. This week, a Brazilian court ordered members of the… Continue Reading →
October 24, 2012 , The Hindu NIRANJAN MAHAWAR: ‘Market forces are also changing artefacts.’ Photo: Rupesh Yadav Niranjan Mahawar, 75, is a self-taught ethnologist of Chhattisgarh. He spent almost five decades in southern Chhattisgarh to study the life and art… Continue Reading →
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