Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

A people on the brink: The fight to protect the Shompen of Great Nicobar

India’s tribal communities have long lived at the margins of society, shaped by histories of displacement, fragile livelihoods and limited access to essential services. Among them, the Particularly Vulnerable...

‘Forcible Conversions’ in Narayanpur and Chhattisgarh – Part 1

The first part of a special report after a fact-finding team’s visit to the Congress-ruled state in central India  

UP school teachers abuse Dalit students daily, no police action yet

The police arrived at the spot to disperse the community members, however instead of filing suo moto complaint, said that no written complaint has been filed by victims

India’s First Draft Bill for Geo-heritage Conservation Ignores Rights of Adivasi Communities

The absence of focus in the Bill on participatory governance, as a possible model for the conservation of geologically important areas, has been pointed out by experts.

Real Impact, Real Change: CJP’s year of monitoring violations: a review

Approaching several authorities to curtail hate speech and demand action against those guilty of targeted violence, CJP has had an action-packed year, and achieved tangible results

Court Inquiry report confirms Dalit labour activist Shiv Kumar’s allegations of custodial torture

In the report it is stated that it appeared that the doctors examining Kumar seemed to have danced to the tunes of  the police officials and also questioned the Magistrate’s role in granting Kumar’s remand.

Weaponised Rhetoric, Absent Evidence: ‘Urban Naxals’ are a political invention

Despite repeated political rhetoric, two separate parliamentary replies reveal that the Union Home Ministry neither defines nor maintains data on so-called "Urban Naxals

Dalit family attacked, women beaten in Rajasthan’s Alwar

Further, the accused is alleged to have made a video of the beating and uploaded it on social media.

62% of dropped out Odisha children tribals, 53% said none conselled them to rejoin

The Odisha government launched a Learning Recovery Programme to...

Zero reported deaths due to manual scavenging: Ramdas Athawale

Is the government denying responsibility by referring to such death as deaths brought on by dangerous cleaning of septic tanks and sewers?

J’khand: Chaibasa tribals allegedly assaulted by security forces during Naxal search op

Gram Sabha Anjedbeda has appealed to the local MLA, MP as well as the National Human Rights Commission as well as the Deputy Commissioner of West Singbhum, Chaibasa

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Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Pradip Prabhu, who brought hope to the oppressed, is no more

An academic activist, Pradip Prabhu worked among Adivasis as also contributed to academia and path-breaking legislation for indigenous land rights