It is crucial to look at how millions of indigenous people would be affected if Uniform Civil Code gets implemented
Claiming credit for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Amit Shah said, the Congress party was "delaying, obstructing and misleading" for 70 years, but Modi has laid the foundation for the temple and it will be...
Drawing a parallel between the oppression faced by Adivasis and Dalits, both of whom are branded due to their so-called low status vis-a-vis the dominant Hindu society, activists shed light on the gamut of discrimination...
Condemning repression of tribals in Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and other parts of India; demanding the arrest of BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh, condemning alleged RSS sponsored violence in Manipur and the gangrape...
Earlier in March this year, 111 Adivasis converted to Sanatana from Christianity by walking on steaming coal during a conversion programme, dubbed as Ghar Wapasi by Hindu right-wing groups
During a rally in Madhya Pradesh in November last year, Gandhi had said the BJP should apologise with folded hands for disrespecting tribals by calling them 'vanvasi'.
The Adivasi-dominated Marda village comes under the Bhandaria block of the Garhwa district. Here, the Adivasis have been facing several cases filed by the forest department.
Dr John Dayal, spokesperson of Union Christian Forum (UCF), earlier while addressing the mediapersons at the Press Club of India, Delhi, condemned the rising attacks against the Christian community and said that the 'water...
In Outlook's latest issue, She Will Overcome, we explore how a generation of gutsy women—heterosexual, lesbian, transgender, Adivasi, Dalit and from...
In Outlook's latest issue, She Will Overcome, we explore not just how women—heterosexual, lesbian, transgender, Adivasi, Dalit and from religious...
In the face of increasingly indifferent law enforcement, Jharkhand is witness to increased violence against people suspected to consume beef or transport cows.
How does the cow politics of the RSS/BJP or relevant theories by scholars justify the complete marginalization of the buffalo in our history, memory,...
The Adivasis don’t milch cows for milk, but leave it for their calves to grow stronger to help them in cultivating their fields. They celebrate both cow and...
'The government shifts for development where the brahmins, upper caste, and upper class settle. And in turn, these development projects shift the Adivasis,...
A segment of Adivasis in the Bastar region believes that those who converted to Christianity are destroying their religious rituals and practices of the tribal...
Throughout history, the sacred geography of Adivasis has been taken away by organised discord and state machinery. And the ongoing land conflict in Mali Parbat...
Recently there has been a series of violent incidents in villages in the Narayanpur and Kondagoan districts related to issues of forced conversion and...
Earlier this year, Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha went to Jharkhand in search of an Adivasi poet, Sushma Asur.
Ashley Tellis meets Adivasi writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar who continues on the path of writing, no matter how difficult.
After years of coercion and co-option, adivasis are fighting for their religious identity and rights, forcing political parties to take note. In the latest...
A poem that shames the destroyers of adivasi culture. Translated from Hindi by Bhumika Chawla D’Souza.
Simon Oraon and his companions collectively protected the forests for years. They deployed four guards for the jungles, who received 20 baskets of rice as...
For Y. S. Alone, the idea of Shiva as the God of Dalits and Adivasis is a misnomer, as they neither have any special spaces of worship nor are they part of...
As the Jharkhand government has failed to keep its promise to drop all cases against them, thousands of Adivasis accused of waging war against the Indian state...
The most interesting part of rewriting of Ramayana as Sitayana seems to be the way Mallika Sengupta describes Valmiki's decision of making Rama a bit soft and...