The Roots and Routes camp inspired us with a deep yet simple realization: that we, along with indigenous people, animals, birds, and every living being, are all part of nature, not separate from it. We don’t stand above or outside...
February 19, 2003 will go down in Kerala’s history as a day when the combined might of the state machinery, institutions, and ‘civilised’ society would bear down to crush the weakest among the state’s indigenous peoples, because they dared to...
It is essential to examine the role of hegemony within democracy and how this form of power relates to capitalism. Subaltern identity represents humanity’s creative and persistent resistance to citizenship, as well as the expression of invaluable human experiences in...
“The first casualty of war is truth” — a familiar adage. Historically, this phrase highlighted the strategic silence maintained by governments to protect national morale or wartime interests. It referred to the approach of conveying facts to the public only...
Communist orthodoxy sees the working class as the main source of surplus value, but it is unpaid labour, drawn from plundered, expropriated, and enslaved subaltern communities, that truly creates it. Subalterns like women, Adivasis, Dalits, and traditional farmers retain autonomy...
China shares major rivers with India and other countries, with water being central to its industrial plans. As China faces a growing water crisis, it may increasingly depend on the Brahmaputra, raising tensions with India and risking conflict. Diplomatic focus...
Some voices in India have applauded the government's move to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, framing it as a patriotic act. However, such applause often overlooks the dangerous precedent of turning water, an essential and shared resource, into...
Kanji Patel is a Gujarati poet and fiction writer. His poetry and fiction center around Adivasi and Denotified Tribes and Communities. These poems are translated by him.
Thorns - they define a boundary, limit the access, and create a separation. They are often a detested lot. However, Sandilya Theuerkauf is an exception, and for all the years of his long run as an artist, he has engaged...
Felix Padel writes, An Adivasi economy, in its traditional or pre-globalization form at least, was based in many ways on ecological principles. In the words of a Kond elder in Kandhamal district, Odisha, “Where are the saints in your society?...
