On January 31, when the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) arrested former Jharkhand chief minister (CM) Hemant Soren—after a brief period of the alleged rumour that he has gone ‘missing’—political ...

Sri Lanka’s indigenous Adivasi community—the Vedda people—have historically maintained a diet of kurakkan roti and game meat. They are also known to have various indigenous cures and treatments for ...

Mayurbhanj is Odisha’s third most populous district that shares its boundary with Jharkhand and West Bengal. The district also has Odisha’s highest Adivasi population – over 58% of the population ...

Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...

Adiwasi leaders posing for a photo with PM Harini Amarasuriya after discussions on the parliamentary bill prepared to secure the rights of indigenous people and the rights they have demanded. Image ...

Hyderabad: Seven years after violent clashes between Adivasis and Lambadis rocked parts of Telangana, the long-standing dispute over the inclusion of Lambadis and Banjaras in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) ...

In 2019, Kapil Toppo realised he’d grown tired of his job as an engineer with Flipkart. “In corporate jobs, all that people care about is your package and how much you earn,” said Toppo, who belongs ...

Who does the forest belong to—this has been a fraught question in the history of independent India. India inherited colonial forest laws that considered forests as just a resource to be exploited, to ...

On March 15, 2022, after waging a decade-long legal battle against the government of India, tribal rights activist Soni Sori and her nephew Lingaram Kodopoi were acquitted by a special National ...