In Ganjam village, a frog dance to woo the rain gods Frustrated over lack of adequate rain, inhabitants of Masiakhali village in Odisha’s Ganjam district on Thursday resorted to the traditional ritual of ‘bengei nacha’ or frog dance to appease the rain gods. Despite the onset of the monsoon, several areas in Ganjam district have […]
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Any exploitation of Sentinel Island will wipe out tribals In a recent policy document, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) has mentioned that any commercial exploitation of the North Sentinel Island of the Andamans will endanger the survival of the Sentinelese tribes. Who are Sentinelese? They are the occupants of the Northern Sentinel Island and
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Gujarat: For those from tribal districts, long journey to get to oxygen beds Satish Chaudhary’s hopes of getting an oxygen bed, however, were dashed as the state-run NCH and the civic body’s SMIMER hospital had stopped new admissions of from Wednesday citing low oxygen supply. A 35-year-old Covid-19 patient from the tribal-dominated Palwada village of
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Marriage Is Driving Tribal Families Into Debt In MP. These Activists Are Trying To Change That. These activists are working with tribes people of Madhya Pradesh to cap marriage expenditures and prevent families from plunging into debt or having to sell off their lands to pay for their children‟s weddings. In villages across Western Madhya
Organic coffee farming is transforming the lives of tribal communities in Odisha’s Koraput district A wide variety of spices and fruits grown in the coffee field diversifies the income of tribal farmers Not too long ago, Surya Chhautia was ready to give up on a 100-acre coffee plantation in Golur village in Odisha‟s Koraput district.
Niti Aayog nod to panel for denotified, semi-nomadic, nomadic tribes Denotified tribes are those that were labelled as criminals through a legislation by British government and were denotified post-independence. Even as the Bill to accord constitutional status to the OBC commission is awaiting passage in Parliament, the NITI Aayog has backed a proposal by a
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IPFT puts pet Tipraland demand on the backburner What is Greater Tipraland? Greater Tipraland‘ is essentially an extension of the ruling tribal partner Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura – IPFT‘s demand of Tipraland, which sought a separate state for tribals of Tripura. The new demand seeks to include every tribal person living in indigenous area
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Team TRIFED Van Dhan India shows the way ‘Work from Home’. Continuing working from home, located in 27 States of the country, a group of over 500 officials from TRIFED, an organisation under the M/o Tribal Affairs, have unleashed the power of Webinars to keep in touch with each other and keep moving and working.
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Computer Science COVID-19 data presented at Anthropology conference New Mexico Highlands University faculty and students presented their findings on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to model the spread of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference in March. The ongoing research project was featured in the prestigious Anthony
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Northeast citizens faced racial discrimination amid COVID-19 outbreak, says govt. study They were “harassed, abused and traumatised” and disparagingly called „coronavirus,‟ says study A study commissioned by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on racial discrimination and hate crimes against people from the northeast States found that the “northeast India seamlessly fits [an]
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