tribals

Dissent in the Desert

S Prasannarajan

The irony of Jamal Khashoggi’s dissent doesn’t minimise the tribal brutalism of the Kingdom

Mahua: Flower Power

Lhendup G Bhutia

Mahua, a humble tipple of the adivasis, finds its space under the liquor marketing sun

Struggle for the Soil

V Shoba

The Adivasis of northern Telangana raise a rallying cry for land and livelihood rights

The Day of the Goddesses

V Shoba

Telangana hosts India’s biggest carnival of tribal counterculture. Open chronicles the faith and frenzy on the river Godavari

The Ban That Must Not Be

Nandini Nair

The Adivasi Will Not Dance tells of a Santhal worldview that is all too often ignored

Santali: Talking Time

Nandini Nair

Two tribal villages in Bengal revive the Santali language

GN Devy: A Portrait of the Linguist as a Humanist

Nandini Nair

The civilisational mission of GN Devy

The Marginal Man

Sumana Ramanan

The memoir of a Gond artist brings out the cultural perversions of progress

Nation Building Leaves Out Tribals

Sandeep Bhushan

An interview with National Advisory Council member Virginus Xaxa, recently appointed head of a committee on the state of India’s tribes

Citizens and Soldiers

Supriya Sharma

The CRPF’s missteps threaten its efforts to woo tribal youth in Chhattisgarh

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tribals

Dissent in the Desert

Mahua: Flower Power

Struggle for the Soil

The Day of the Goddesses

The Ban That Must Not Be

Santali: Talking Time

GN Devy: A Portrait of the Linguist as a Humanist

The Marginal Man

Nation Building Leaves Out Tribals

Citizens and Soldiers

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