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, by ABRAHAM Sara, KELA Shashank
SARA ABRAHAM SPOKE with Indian writer and commentator Shashank Kela in December 2014. Kela has published A Rogue and Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000 (Navayana Publishing, 2012), which attempts to put contemporary struggles in India in historical context. He writes occasionally on (…)
, by MUKERJEE Madhushree
Adivasi society is being destroyed by the classic tools of colonial development, and it is all being done in the name of its fellow Indians.
“Yet another horrific gang rape has grabbed headlines in India,” began an editorial in The New York Times on February 1, 2014. “This time, a village (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
It’s fashionable in some circles to claim that discrimination based on caste has steadily decreased in India, as it’s bound to, thanks to modernisation, urbanisation and industrialisation. The character of caste is itself changing from a system of social hierarchy based on birth and ritual (…)
, by PUNIYANI Ram
Caste hierarchy is the major obstacle to the goal of social justice and it continues to be a major obstacle to social progress even today. There are many a theories, which have tried to understand its origin. The latest in the series is the attempt of RSS to show its genesis due to invasion of (…)
, by GUHA Ramachandra
The killings of Mahendra Karma and his colleagues call not for retributive violence but for a deeper reflection on the discontent among the tribals of central India and their dispossession
In the summer of 2006, I had a long conversation with Mahendra Karma, the Chhattisgarh Congress leader (…)
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11 October 2011
India: Chhattisgarh should drop charges against Prisoners of Conscience Soni Sodi and Lingaram Kodopi and unconditionally release them
Amnesty International urges authorities in the central Indian state of (…)
, by D’SOUZA Radha
The ’Sandwich Theory’
I was piqued by the phrase ’sandwich theory’ when I first heard it from Delhi students. They were referring to the views of a section of articulate, influential, middle India in the wake of the controversies over Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh and now Operation Green Hunt. (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation, CPI (ML) New Democracy, LSA, NSS, PPSS, SJP
Following statement was jointly issued by Left and democratic parties (mentioned at the end) on 25 March at Bhubaneswar.
Yesterday the Collector of Jajpur district assured Dabar Kalundia, a tribal leader of Bisthapan Birodhi Jan Manch (BBJM) that he would come to Baligotha village on 28 March (…)
, by Campaign for Justice and Peace
Post card campaign and Cycle Rally launched to condemn the State sponsored killings of tribals in Chhattisgarh and to demand that Mr. Chidambaram stop the tribal atrocities immediately
25/1/2010, Chennai: Speaking out against the State-sponsored killings and rapes of adivasis of Dantewada (…)
, by MOHAN KOMMALAPATI Narendra
The plains of peninsular India are ringed by two rows of hill ranges with their bases in the south, spreading up the coastlines in two great arcs west and east. The eastern ranges, “eastern ghats”, start in the state of Tamil Nadu and cross the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and (…)
, by KRISHNAN Kavita
Around 14 April, the 118th Birth Anniversary of Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani accused the Congress of having mistreated Dr. Ambedkar, referring among other things to his resignation from the Congress Cabinet in 1951, and (…)
, by SARATHI RAY Partho
The events that have been happening during the last one week in the adivasi (tribal) belt of West Midnapur district in West Bengal are so unprecedented that the authorities do not know how to respond to them, and the media doesn’t understand their significance.
Even the political parties and (…)
, by ANAND Shaweta, DAS Asit, DATTA Sayantoni, NAIR Kuldeep, PRATAP Vijay
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Today, ten activists including Sebastian Rodrigues of Mand Adivasi Resource Centre struggling against mining activities in the area for the past two decades have been arrested at Quepem Police Station. It is to be noted that the police shamelessly watched the activists being (…)
, by BAKSHI D P
KALINGANAGAR in January 2006 and now Kandhamal in December 2007 – in both episodes we can see the twin faces of the Navin Patnaik’s BJD-BJP Government in Orissa, in which the most vulnerable sections of the state’s people – adivasis and dalit minorities – are subjected to corporate land grab and (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
While Mayawati is being hailed for her party’s unique metamorphosis from Bahujan to ‘Sarvajan’, Mayawati’s victory has no doubt sharpened the aspirations of dalits in UP for democracy and empowerment. However, the few weeks that have followed Mayawati’s ascension to power have witnessed a (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Police bullets are the Raje Government’s first response to any mass mobilisation and protest in Rajasthan. The police firing on Gujjar protestors which claimed a toll of 16 people is the latest in the long record of police terror that the Raje Government has unleashed in Rajasthan in its (…)
, by MUKHERJEE Uddalak
If caste panchayats still rule the roost in India’s villages, it is only because the State is unwilling to intervene, writes Uddalak Mukherjee.
Ninteen-year-old Gudiya, born in Nehra, a village near Agra, led an ordinary life. There was nothing ordinary about her death though. Gudiya and (…)
, by NCDHR
Basra Devi was forcibly tonsured and paraded half-naked in the village by the people despite pleading that she was innocent.
Basra Devi is a Dalit woman, in her mid 50s, of Balua Basanta village in Vaishali district of Bihar state in India. She was meted out the humiliating punishment on (…)
, by The Tribune (India)
ALL the claims of progress and modernisation that Haryana may make are negated at one go when shocking news of caste panchayats punishing those who marry out of caste emanate from the state. And the unthinkable happens a little too often, mainly in the Jatland. Leave alone targeting a boy (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) observed the all-India Protest Day on December 2 to demand punishment for the perpetrators of vandalism against Ambedkar statues and violence against Dalit people, and protesting against the police repression being unleashed on Dalit masses ever (…)
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