Our trip to the Adivasi festival in Ranchi: School blog about an excursion from the Nilgiri mountains of Tamil Nadu to Jharkhand in central India

This week, our blog is coming to you from the students of Class 9. […] In order, you can see (back row left-right) Tariq (one of our supervisors), Srudilaya, Prasad, Mridul, Priya (one of our teachers), then (front row left-right) Nibuna, Badichi, Vijimol (one of our supervisors) and Nandini. Those of us in Class 9 … Read more

Storytelling and local history in tribal school curriculum: Gudalur region (Nilgiri) – Tamil Nadu

March 27th, 2013 […] A few of us have been busy over the last few weeks. We are trying to find ways to share stories of our local history with other in our school and family. For many years, the Adivasis of the Gudalur region, and especially the Paniyas, were bonded labourers working for landowners. In … Read more

Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal: NGO for Tribal women’s welfare – New Delhi

Contact Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal 151/2 neb sarai New Delhi 110068 M +91 9999747696 & +91 9560838198 tribalwomen2009@gmail.com Source: message from Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal (6-4-13) Activities: Tribal & Indegeneous Tribal women Welfare Source: Adivasi Mahila vikas Mandal Address : http://www.ngoportal.org/ngo-database-4726-Adivasi+Mahila+vikas+Mandal.html Date Visited: Sat Apr 06 2013 20:08:02 GMT+0200 (CEST) Facebook Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal https://www.facebook.com/adivasimahila.vikasmandal.5

Adivasi community event and documentary film screening hosted by Accord – Tamil Nadu

Accord held a meeting in memory of Manoharan who passed away in 2012. He worked with Accord for 20 years. A lecture was delivered by Shashank Kela, author of a recently published book titled ‘A Rogue and Peasant Slave’ dealing with the history of Adivasi resistance. The lecture we screened a wonderful film on the Adiya tribal … Read more

Missing school in spite “very good laws” for child protection: Unicef – Meghalaya

By GARDINER HARRIS, nytimes.com, February 25, 2013 Slideshow >> “We have very good laws in this country,” said Vandhana Kandhari, a child protection specialist at Unicef. “It’s our implementation that’s the problem.” […] Meghalaya lies in India’s isolated northeast, a stump of land squashed between China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Its people are largely tribal and … Read more