Education & literacy

“The goal is to prepare some model students in our villages, so that others will be inspired to follow them.” – Santal educationist Boro Baski in “Long-term success of non-formal Adivasi school in West Bengal” (D+C Development and Cooperation, 2 July 2009)
https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/long-term-success-non-formal-adivasi-school-west-bengal
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=2274

Congratulations & “Hul Johaar” to Prof. Sonajharia Minz: Appointment as Vice Chancellor, Sidhu Kanhu Murumu University – Jharkhand

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Source: email from Ramdas Bhaskaran, Viswa Bharati Vidyodaya Trust, 4 June 2020 Sonajharia Minz was a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, as well as the president of the JNU Teachers’ Association. She has now become the vice-chancellor of SKMU-Dumka, replacing M.K. Sinha. Source: Telegraph Calcutta, 29 May 2020URL: https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/jharkhand/kolhan-varsity-s-new-head-pushes-for-job-oriented-courses-in-tribal-belt/cid/1776666Date visited: 4 June … Read more

Languages, traditions and culture of tribals to be protected: New dictionaries of unique tribal languages – Karnataka State Tribal Research Institute

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MYSURU: For the first time, Karnataka State Tribal Research Institute (KSTRI) has come up with a novel initiative to preserve languages of tribals in the state. KSTRI is gearing to launch dictionaries of tribal languages. As part of the work in the first phase, KSTRI is working on languages of Hakki Pikki and Dungri Garasia … Read more

eBook | Constitutional obligations towards communities “suffering from extreme social, educational and economic backwardness” and “untouchability” – Government of India

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Welcome to NCST – National Commission for Scheduled Tribes The framers of the Constitution took note of the fact that certain communities in the country were suffering from extreme social, educational and economic backwardness arising out of age-old practice of untouchability and certain others on account of this primitive agricultural practices, lack of infrastructure facilities and … Read more

“Why India Needs Scheduled Tribes to Educate its Future Judges”: Adivasi rights and the the Indian constitution

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The rights of adivasis in the Indian constitution are not an act of benevolence to “mainstream and uplift them” but a recognition that the “mainstream” of Indian society has many streams that flow into it, each of them equally valid. | To read the full essay by Nandini Sundar, click here >> […] At the … Read more

Serving 320 hamlets in the times of CoVid-19: Viswa Bharati Vidyodaya & ACCORD – Tamil Nadu

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Community mobilization in the times of CoVid-19 As a community, we are all sharing the experience of the CoVid-19 pandemic in different ways. For the tribal communities here, it has posed a direct threat to their health and livelihood with most of them losing their only source of income and struggling to keep their families hunger-free … Read more