Modern Slavery in India: How Adivasi Workers Remain Trapped in Debt, Deference & Disposable Work Paid well below the legal minimum, denied basic dignity, and bound to labour through medical debt disguised as “assistance”, the story of two domestic workers reflects the condition of thousands trapp...

Paid ₹50 for 5–6 hours of work.
Made to sit on the floor
Told they were “not equals”

In an upper-middle-class home in #Jharkhand, #Adivasi domestic workers live as bonded labour. Researchers Daniya Shah & Neil Tannen write on the persistence of modern slavery

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Modern Slavery in India: How Adivasi Workers Remain Trapped in Debt, Deference & Disposable Work Paid well below the legal minimum, denied basic dignity, and bound to labour through medical debt disguised as “assistance”, the story of two domestic workers reflects the condition of thousands trapp...

Paid ₹50 for 5–6 hours of work.
Made to sit on the floor
Told they were “not equals”

In an upper-middle-class home in #Jharkhand, #Adivasi domestic workers live as bonded labour. Researchers Daniya Shah & Neil Tannen write on the persistence of modern slavery

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Johar, Alle Hattu Mage Parab 2026 Sabenko Hujuben 🙏🔥😍

#mageporab #mageparaba2026 #chhidakudar #patasahi #bonai #rourkela #odisha #homunda #ho #munda #johar #juhar #adivasi #adivasisamaj #hoparab #mundaparab #tribal #tribalculture #myvillage #myvillageproud #ilovemyculture #proudonmyculture

A Season Of Rape & Bondage: How The State Failed 2 Adivasi Girls In Maharashtra’s Rs 80,000-Crore Sugar Economy Two Adivasi teenage girls, who travelled from Chhattisgarh to Maharashtra, part of an annual distress migration of about 1.2 million to find work cutting sugarcane, were raped by men who kept an eye o...

2 #Adivasi girls who migrated 750 km to cut sugarcane in #Marathwada were raped in Majalgaon. Out of school, with no workplace protections despite a Bombay HC order, they are among millions of vulnerable women, children in #India’s cane fields. Kavitha Iyer reports

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Sunny Kapikad speaking at the session titled, ഗോത്രജനത തീർക്കുന്ന പുതുവഴികൾ | The New Avenues for Tribal Life. The link to the full video up on YT, is in the bio.

#wayanadliteraturefestival #WLF2024 #tribal #adivasi #kerala #malayalam #wayanad #Attappadi

Sunny M Kapikad speaking at the session titled ഗോത്രജനത തീർക്കുന്ന പുതുവഴികൾ | The New Avenues for Tribal Life. The link to the full video is in the bio.

#wayanadliteraturefestival #WLF2024 #sunnykapikkadu #tribal #adivasi #malayalamliterature #kerala #malayalam #wayanad #attappadi

#Odisha | The police on Sunday arrested Subharanjan Mondal, who belongs to the #Bengali community, in the murder case, the #Adivasi groups were demanding action against all suspects involved in the matter.

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The sounds of Wayanad ft. dancers from the Paniya Adivasi Community.

#WLF #WayanadLiteratureFestival #Wayanad #paniya #adivasi #soundsofwayanad #dance #tribal

‘Better to die than remain in a hospital’: Nilgiris’ Adivasis face health neglect Hello,

#TamilNadu is well known for being one of India's best-performing states in the field of health. However, for #Adivasi families in #Nilgiris, reality is quite different.

Johanna Deeksha reports on various factors that hinder this community from accessing the most basic services.

Field Notes: 'We Are Denied Dignity Even In Death' SYED AFFAN

“We didn't convert from Hinduism to Christianity. Why should we reconvert to Hinduism?”

Syed Affan's #fieldnotes on #Adivasi Christians being assaulted/excommunicated/forced to convert their loved ones to Hinduism even in death, a pattern under BJP

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Refused Burials, Corpses ‘Converted’ To Hinduism: Odisha’s Christians Face A Surge Of Violence Under A BJP Govt In village after village in Odisha, Hindus are stopping Adivasi Christians from burying their dead unless they renounce their faith. Between October 2024 and April 2025, four Adivasi families and one ...

With no church in his village, #Adivasi #Christian Gangadhar Santa travels 25 km to worship, fearing even private prayer at home after his grandfather’s death & his refusal to convert to Hinduism. Syed Affan reports on a surge of anti-Christian violence in #Odisha

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Sunny Kapikad speaking at the session titled, ഗോത്രജനത തീർക്കുന്ന പുതുവഴികൾ | The New Avenues for Tribal Life. The link to the full video up on YT, is in the bio.

#wayanadliteraturefestival #WLF2024 #tribal #adivasi #kerala #malayalam #wayanad #Attappadi

📣🎙️ Episode 6 of “Saffron Siege”: Political scientists Tariq Thachil and Kamal Nayan Choubey speak to Harsh Mander about how the RSS and its offshoots have made inroads into and are influencing #Adivasi society
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𝐇𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐢 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐙𝐢𝐫𝐰𝐚l 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

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#ShreekantPatil #SelfEmployment #MSME #SmallBusiness #GovtSchemes #NarhariZirwal #Training #Adivasi #Tribal

The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction IN 1920, the Czech author Karel Čapek wrote a science fiction play called R.U.R. – short for Rossumovi Univerzalni Roboti, or Rossum’s Universal Robots. Credite

" #Adivasi #futurism performs a powerful task of imagination, conjuring visions of Adivasi culture surviving into a distant future, of Adivasi societies achieving great technological prowess while holding onto their traditions."
Sreyartha Krishna writes:

India’s deadly war on Naxalites and Adivasis in Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh’s anti-Maoist crackdown leads to escalating violence on Adivasis

" #Adivasi rights advocate Soni Sori said that she has often seen women and children impacted by crackdowns on #Maoists, @nikitajain15 writes:

🎉In July the Supreme Court of 🇮🇳 India passed a judgment upholding the right of #Adivasi women to an equal share in the inheritance of family land & property.

✊IWGIA welcomes this judgment giving Adivasi women the legal precedent to own and inherent land & property.

👉https://bit.ly/4miQQgb

Field Notes: ‘You Will Leave…Who Will Stand With Us’ ADNAN ALI

"The very media that should have amplified our voices is busy running false propaganda against us"

#Adivasi rights collective HOWL—beaten at the Indore Press Club, raided, now in hiding—faces a legal fight in MP. Adnan Ali reflects on their anguish

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When HOWL backed an #Adivasi woman for sarpanch, powerful men lost.
When they backed an independent youth in the assembly election, old contractors were unseated. The backlash was swift and included false FIRs, threats, and arrest

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HOWL or How We Ought to Live had no NGO or donors—just 9 young Indians helping #Adivasi communities thrive. Then, following a pattern evident in many #BJP states, came a smear campaign, mob violence & a fake conversion charge. Now, their work is in ruins

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A Youth Collective Supporting Tribals In Rural MP Faces Violent Hindutva Mob, Fake Conversion Charge & A Legal Battle In a remote Adivasi village in Madhya Pradesh, a self-funded youth collective called HOWL spent four years building schools, water systems, and health services—until an attack by a mob of Hindutva ext...

A youth collective in rural #MadhyaPradesh backed an #Adivasi woman for sarpanch & an independent tribal youth for MLA. Both lost—but the old power structure cracked. Then came the backlash: threats, mobs, false FIRs & jail for the founder. Adnan Ali reports

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When No One Lit A Candle: The Silence Around The Khandwa Gangrape Case Across India, multiple tribal women have been raped in recent months, many of them minors, some of them murdered, and yet, the outrage is muted.

'This means that not all rape cases are treated equally. When the survivor is #Adivasi, #Dalit, or from other marginalized communities, the violence is often ignored or accepted without outrage.'

#FiLiA2025 session on #Caste

Tickets available.

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🚨Operazione della polizia indiana contro i #JenuKuruba

Questa mattina, oltre 250 persone tra guardie forestali, membri delle forze di sicurezza per la tigre e poliziotti hanno fatto irruzione in un villaggio che i Jenu Kuruba hanno rivendicato  il 5 maggio scorso.
#India #Adivasi
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Homecoming As Resistance: In Karnataka, Adivasis Reclaim A Forest From Which They Were Evicted 40 Years Ago In an act of defiance, 52 families of the Jenu Kuruba Adivasi community marched back into the Nagarhole tiger reserve on 5 May 2025, returning to the forest from which they were evicted—by force and w...

“India got freedom, but Adivasis remain serfs”

J C Shivamma, a #JenuKuruba #Adivasi who has reoccupied her ancestral village in #Nagarhole, said she would rather die here than be evicted again. Kavitha Iyer reports

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#India 's war on its own citizens. On behalf of big money.
#Bastar #Adivasi

Inheemse vrouwen in Odisha leiden de weg naar klimaatrechtvaardigheid In het kort In de oostelijke Indiase deelstaat Odisha worden inheemse Adivasi-stammen geconfronteerd met de harde realiteit van klimaatverandering. Hun traditionele gewoonten – zoals het verbouwen van gierst en rijst, het verzamelen van bladeren en fruit, en het vissen in plaatselijke beken – worden steeds meer bedreigd door onvoorspelbare moessons, afnemende regenval en slinkende natuurlijke […] The post Inheemse vrouwen in Odisha leiden de weg naar klimaatrechtvaardigheid appeared first on Newsmonkey.

Inheemse vrouwen in Odisha leiden de weg naar klimaatrechtvaardigheid #Klimaatrechtvaardigheid #InheemseVrouwen #Odisha #Adivasi #Klimaatverandering

OnlineFirst - "“Forest doesn’t burn anymore”: Indigenous ontologies of cultural burning and fire in Southern India" by @helinajolly.bsky.social, Milind Kandlikar, Suma Vishnudas, and Terre Satterfield:

#Adivasi #WesternGhats #SouthIndia #decolonization

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