Utnoor (Adilabad): Adivasi dance masters long years of struggle to keep their traditional Gussadi and Dhimsa art forms alive in the old Adilabad district and in bordering Maharashtra are beginning to ...

It was an unusual day for most of the Nashikites when they witnessed different dances performed by the Adivasi tribe The government officials felicitated Kavita Raut and Monika Aathare from the ...

Writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is only too aware of the trappings of being a privileged member of the Santhal tribe taking an outsider’s view of the community. If he had a rather carefree life while ...

Over 8,000 youths from the state’s tea/Adivasi community performed their traditional Jhumoir dance in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and envoys of over 50 countries at the Sarusajai stadium on ...

Babies die. Girls are sold off, raped. Mothers are branded witches. No, there’s no easy way to read this collection of stories by Jharkhand’s Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar who won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva ...

India is home to over 500 adivasi communities, making it the country with the world’s largest adivasi population. To bring their voices and heritage to the forefront, the National School of Drama (NSD ...

The three sections of the slim novel, My Father’s Garden, are given to three men and three relationships — each with the unnamed narrator. Writing in the first person for the first time made him ...

Adilabad: Adivasi children performed 'Budbave Persabave’ rituals for good rains and crops in the agricultural season in their villages. In traditional attire, they went to houses as families poured ...

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is that rare being: an Adivasi writer from mainland India who writes in English. Most mainland Adivasis write in the dominant language of the state they inhabit (most ...

The two-day festival aims to showcase the tribal tradition, art and culture, lifestyle, music and dance, besides holding seminars that would be attended by scholars and celebrities from across the ...

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 ...