The village of Galkuva lies deep in the heart of southern Gujarat, in Tapi district. On July 16, light droplets of rain pattered down as we made our way to a spacious mud house amidst fields of ...

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 ...

Yet, Adivasi recipes are kept alive in Adivasi homes and haats or weekly bazaars. One of the most scrumptious dishes amongst ...

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 ...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will not provide fund for any development project that threatens lives and livelihood of Adivasi people. International consultant and team leader of ADB Roger Plant said ...

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 ...

After choosing a Dalit as a Presidential candidate in the previous elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance named an Adivasi woman as its nominee for the for the ...

The proponents of globalisation would like to have us believe that the world has, indeed, become a global village, connected by easy and speedy flows of information, trade networks, and the exchange ...

Warangal: Panchayat raj minister Seethakka criticised BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao, alleging that he has no moral authority to speak about an Adivasi woman like her when he "could not even ...

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 ...