आदिवासी
December 21, 2016
Delivering the 8th Anuradha Gandhy Memorial Lecture, titled Black Lives, Dalits Lives: Histories and Solidarities to a rapt and considerable audience at the KC College auditorium in south Mumbai, Ms Davis spoke passionately about the moments of promise and solidarities between the Dalit and Adivasi movements in India and the Black resistance in the United States.
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December 16, 2016
किसी खास समाज, समूह या समुदाय को वहां के मजबूत और सत्ता पर पकड़ रखनेवाले लोग किस नजर से देखते हैं, इसे समझने का एक पैमाना यह भी हो सकता है कि ये समूह किन मुद्दों के लिए आवाज बुलंद कर रहे हैं.
देश के आदिवासी इलाकों से कुछ-कुछ दिनों पर जद्दोजेहद और जल-जंगल-जमीन की हिफाजत की गूंज सुनाई देती है. ताजा गूंज झारखंड से सुनाई दे रही है. पिछले दिनों झारखंड के दो कानूनों- छोटानागपुर...
December 10, 2016
The state-wide protests in Jharkand last Friday, December 3 and 4 had Section 144 being imposed all over the state and police posses outside every district college and university. The ‘national media lense’ was absent even as Jharkand, one of India’s youngest states was and is on the boil after the BJP-dominated State Assembly illegally passed amendments to the Chotanagpur...
December 5, 2016
Dalits and Adivasis are worst hot by this foolish move and will never forgive the BJP for it
The stories of devastation and deaths caused by prime minister Modi’s decision to demonetize 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes are pouring in from all over the country. In a country where 97% of all transactions by volume are done in cash, summary demonetization of its 86.4% currency value...
December 3, 2016
कल झारखंड के संपुर्ण विपक्ष द्वारा सीएनटी एसपीटी एक्ट संशोधन के विरोध में सरकार के खिलाफ शांति पुर्वक झारखंड बंद
CNT act-SPT act संशोधन का सच
इस एक्ट की धारा-71A में चालाकी की गयी है। अब कोई उद्योगपति यदि चाहे तो कहीं की भी जमीन सरकारी रेट पर सरकार से सीधे खरीद सकेगा। पहले उस उद्योगपति को झारखंडी जमीन मालिक से और ग्राम प्रधान से बात कर सौदा तय करना होता था। जाहिर है कि सभी रैयत उनकी शर्तों...
November 27, 2016
The Bharatiya Janta Party government has amended the land tenancy laws to allow use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.
Image credit: Manob Chowdhury
Offices and markets remained shut in Jharkhand on Friday after protests broke out over the amendments to land tenancy laws governing predominantly Adivasi regions in the state by the Raghuvar Das-led government. As...
November 24, 2016
Background:
More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 121 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri?
Photo Courtesy: Greeshma Aruna Rai
Firstly, 32 children have been confirmed to have died due to JE. This by itself is cause for concern and requires all...
November 24, 2016
Sonu Anugu, an Adivasi activist and Anand Madhi, a government school teacher refute the findings of the expert team constituted by the government in this Video story .
November 24, 2016
More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 110 but local activists say the number is much higher, what is happening in Malkangiri.
Video Courtesy: Dalit Camera
Courtesy: India Resists
November 24, 2016
Accused of toeing Modi’s line of favouring corporate houses, the amendments to the age-old Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act and Santhal Pargana Tenancy (SPT) Act, passed through a voice vote that will irrevocably change they the occupancy rights of tribal over land
Water cannons to tame ruckus Image: Telehraph/Vijay Deo Jha
The Opposition's fierce protest against the Bills...