Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger

The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?

Young Activists, residents of Aarey celebrate Rakshabandhan by tying rakhis to trees

This unique celebration is being called 'Vrikshabandhan' and many activists and tribals, led by the Aarey Conservation Group and other organisations, gathered at the forest and tied rakhis to trees which have been threatened by various developmental projects.

Van Gujjar tribe plans annual tree plantation drive to keep forests green

This will be celebrated as a festival every year for a week as a practice of giving back to nature

Gram Sabha Resolution to aid defence of forest rights

A Delhi based research group has prepared sample resolutions with all legal provisions which can be used by Gram Sabhas to fight against forest rights violations

Jharkhand Adivasis brutally beaten up by CRPF men: Fact Finding Report

They were later paid paltry sums and were asked to not press charges against CRPF

U Sambasivarao: Tribute to a great Bahujan visionary

The loss is immense but the movement that he built must continue

CJP-AIUFWP move NCST against atrocities on Van Gujjars

Petition to light a recent instance of blatant violation of rights of Van Gujjars of Dehradun allegedly by local police and forest officials

Bihar Adivasis revive the call for ‘Jal-Jungle -Zameen’

The Adivasis of Adhaora, Kaimur have been leading this struggle for decades, but the lockdown has exacerbated the government’s efforts to evict these tribes

Dalit boy allegedly thrashed, forced to eat excreta by upper caste Hindu man

The incident took place in Tamil Nadu’s Dharmapuri district on Tuesday

Tribal’s death prompts protest in MP, family alleges harassment by forest department

It was alleged by the family that a forest officer had demanded Rs. 1 lakh from the deceased to free his tractor

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