By Purushottam Nayak SIKABADI, September 22, 2026: In a remote corner of Odisha’s Kandhamal district, where daily-wage labour and small-scale farming sustain families, five young people from one extended tribal household are beginning a journey that once seemed almost unimaginable: medical college. In Sikabadi village of Daringbadi block, Bursi PradhanContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Saraswatipur Tea Garden, August 9, 2026: For girls growing up in a tea garden where opportunities are often limited, a rugby field has become a place to find confidence, recognition and a voice. The Jungle Crows girls’ rugby team from Saraswatipur near Siliguri marked International Indigenous People’sContinue Reading
By C. M. Paul Kharagpur, April 9, 2026: A leadership meeting of the Adivasi Forum under the Bongiyo Christian Pariseba (BCP) Bengal Christian Council has focused on resisting what leaders described as efforts to undermine the constitutional rights of India’s tribal communities and on charting strategies for collective action. TheContinue Reading
Wayanad, June 28, 2020: Despite the coronavirus-induced lockdown, primary school teacher M K Krishnaja has been tied up in a busy schedule these days. What keeps the 26-year-old on her toes is recording videos of online classes for the tribal students in Wayanad district of Kerala, which has the largestContinue Reading
Satyasundar Barik Bhubaneswar: In dozens of nondescript tribal villages in Odisha’s Rayagada district, every time a woman of the Saura tribe cooks rice for the family, she puts aside a handful of raw rice, which is collected for a community fund from which ‘special’ teachers draw their paltry remuneration. WhatContinue Reading
It is risky, adventurous, tedious going to the interior villages and trying to empower the poorest of the poorContinue Reading
