Farm and Forest

Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve

Adivasis and supporting activists have petitioned the authorities against what they term as the ‘forcible re-location” of Chenchu (PVTG) Adivasis in the Amravad Tiger Reserve and urged a ‘co-existence’ model of conservation

Photo essay: Farmers’ protests make history across India

The nationwide farmers' protest may have been ignored by a vast section of the mainstream media, but here are a few riveting images from the ground

Twitterati bat for Farmers’ Rights, even as news media attempts distractions

Even as troll armies, IT Cells and news media continue to spread propaganda or divert attention, civil society, some journalists and ordinary Indians came together to bat for ‘kisan-mazdoor’ rights

Farmer Protests: From streets to social media

Throwing caution to the wind, farmers across the nation stepped out on the roads to decry the insensitive laws put down by the Centre. Workers, peasants, students and netizens all came together to hold the government accountable.

Live Updates on All India Protests against Farm Bills, 2020

Welcome to SabrangIndia’s live blog on the nation-wide Farmers protests against Modi Sarkar’s Farm Bills, 2020. We will be bringing you news, images and stories from across the country all day today. In case you want others to look away from the circus tricks of electronic news channels and hear voices from the streets, share this thread with them now.

India ratifies, but doesn’t adopt UN Resolution on farmers’ rights?

India was made a member of the UN Human Rights Council soon after the adoption of this Resolution, in October 2018. However, India has not adopted it.

Nation continues agitation against anti-people laws

As the National Protest Day draws closer, workers, farmers, marginalised intensify their agitation against the undemocratic Central Bills.

MSP for farmers: Exposing the lies of the Modi government

Fact checking claims and figures floated by the regime to obfuscate how its latest policies and bills threaten the wellbeing of Indian farmers

Voices of dissent course through the country

Thousands of people came together to decry anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-people laws passed by the Centre in recent days.

False narratives cannot fill a farmer’s empty stomach

Representatives of farmers talk about the importance of MSPs, the manipulation of MSP data at the government-level and the injustice of the three agriculture Bills.

EXCLUSIVE! Protecting  the rights of small farmers, the Right to Food of all citizens

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Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve

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