आदिवासी
December 24, 2016
At least 150 protesters have been detained and the police has informally imposed Section 144 around the fishermen's colony.
Image credit: Aarefa Johari
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his way to Mumbai to inaugurate Maharashtra government’s controversial mid-sea Shivaji memorial, a police crackdown has forced fishing communities in the city to give up their planned...
December 23, 2016
SC Judgement on SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, December 15, 2016
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December 23, 2016
The Supreme Court has directed the National Legal Services Authority to formulate appropriate schemes to spread awareness and provide free legal aid to members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
It is rare that the Courts give a pronouncement that is both decisive and revealing. The moot question lies regarding implementation. On December 15, 2016, disposing of a petition filed by...
December 23, 2016
Photo Courtesy: Rob Elliot/AFP
The original inhabitants of the Konkan coast are planning an action on December 24, saying the proposed memorial in the sea will ruin their livelihoods.
As the Maharashtra government’s dream to build a Shivaji Memorial in the Arabian Sea off the coast of South Mumbai edges closer to reality, the opposition from fishing communities affected by the...
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...