Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...

Sailana (Madhya Pradesh): Just days following the surprising victory of Kamlesh Dodiyar from the Bharat Adivasi Party, the newly-elected MLA reached out to his supporters in a live session on a social ...

Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...