ANTHROPOLOGY SINPPETS

Bengal’s Tribal Women Lead Change, Ensure Food-Security and Fight Social Ills Tribal women of Purulia district in West Bengal have learnt, with the help of several NGOs and SHGs, to implement efficient water management techniques and multi-crop approach and achieved food-sufficiency in a region that was on the „drought-hit‟ list in spite of heavy rainfalls. […]

Transforming Tribal Kids In 60 Days Life in the tribal belt of Rajasthan‟s Udaipur district is very rough. Shrinking forests and pasture lands, on the one hand, and small, unproductive farm holdings, on the other, are squeezing life out of many a home, with the adult occupants forced to bundle up their few belongings and

Doctor couple does wonders for tribals at Sittilingi Sittilingi is a remote village in Dharmapuri district, 125 km away from Salem town in Tamil Nadu, which used to be a god forsaken land caught under the spell of quacks and black magic. Noisy drums and fake injections were all they had to cure illnesses. This

Art Of Healing Among India’s Poorest: A Remarkable Woman Doctor’s Story  Dr Rani Bang lives and works in Gadchiroli, a district in central India known for its remarkable tribal traditions as for its ‘underdevelopment’. A doctor specialising in gynaecology, she with her husband, Abhay Bang, also a doctor, has worked in this remote region for

Tribal Health & Nutrition Portal -“Swasthya” Tribal Health & Nutrition Portal: One-stop solution for the health & nutrition status of the tribal population of India. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs in collaboration with Piramal Swasthya, the Centre of Excellence has developed this Tribal Health and Nutrition Portal ‘Swasthya’, a one- stop solution presenting all information

Forest depts as nodal agency for community forest resources: A political blunder The Chhattisgarh government issued an order on May 31, 2020 making the state forest department the nodal agency for Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) under the Scheduled Tribes and the Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006. The move invoked discontent from several quarters. Alok

An institute like KISS should be banned for what it does to tribal children, not celebrated’, says tribal leader Doley in exclusive chat with TCN The Kalinga Intitute of Social Sciences (KISS) has often been presented as an ideal model for ensuring that tribal children are not deprived of education because of poverty. Over the

The language of the Tangams, with just 253 speakers Who are the Tangams and why is their case reflective of the larger issue of eroding languages across linguistically diverse Arunachal Pradesh? We explain. Last week Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu released a book titled Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of

Leading NGOs Believe FCRA Changes Will ‘Kill’ Voluntary Sector The amendments will also hinder the sector’s ability to collaborate and conduct research, activists tell The Wire. New Delhi: The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 introduced in Lok Sabha on September 20 will severely impact collaborative research in critical fields in India as organisations receiving

KVIC Sets ‘Honey Mission’ World Record, Gives 1000 Bee-Boxes to Kaziranga Tribals! The initiative is part of a greater mission, under which they envision distributing 1.3 lakh bee-boxes across four corners of the country, Albert Einstein had once said that if bees disappeared from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than