“Eastern Zonal Council, comprising the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal” – Government of India in “Zonal Councils – Genesis” (accessed 3 April 2021)
http://interstatecouncil.nic.in/genesis/
Zonal Cultural Centres
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=13904
The film focuses on a moment of hope, the government bringing in the Forest Rights Act (2006) to right ‘historic wrongs’ only to betray that promise, so as to protect predatory developers against these expendable peoples.
Dharti Latar Re Horo by Shishir Jha (duration 1h 35m) is a story of a tribal couple coping with the loss of their daughter in the Uranium Mining area in the state of Jharkhand, India. Shishir Jha is known for Dharti Latar Re Horo (2022), Shuruaat Ka Interval (2014) and August (2014).Source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6563133/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Reviews Tortoise … Read more
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Though India is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, our small cluster of two Adivasi villages in West Bengal has not suffered infections yet. We do feel the economic impacts of course. […] Farm work has continued quietly. To many Santals, one lesson of the pandemic has been that agriculture provides the safest livelihoods. It … Read more