A book touching on every aspect of the Adivasi situation: Whose country is it anyway?

The book Whose country is it anyway? is Gladson Dungdung’s attempt to tell the story of his people and their struggle. It was published by Adivaani and launched on Feb. 7th 2013 at the Delhi World Book Fair by Himanshu Kumar, Swami Agnivesh and Felix Padel. Source: ‘It’s time Adivasis wrote, spoke about their anguish’ | JHARKHAND … Read more

Indigenous population assert their culture and land rights peacefully: The patience of first peoples – Argentina

A bad place to be indigenous. But Argentina’s ‘original peoples’ are gathering momentum.A clash of dreamsIndigenous Argentinians, disrespected and ignored for too long, are forging new alliances in their quest to safeguard the natural world […]As I draw closer, I see the ramshackle collection of painted wooden structures around which people are gathering. This is Punta … Read more

Raising the Unheard Voice: Adivaani publishing for and by Adivasis – West Bengal

Publishing house Adivaani, literally meaning the ‘Ancient Voice’, strives at being the authentic adivasi (tribal community) voice, the voice that has mostly been drowned in the dominance of myriad ‘mainstream’ voices – Read more >> Source: Society July 2013 – Raising the Unheard VoiceAddress : https://adivaani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/society_mag.pdfDate Visited: Mon Jul 22 2013 13:51:09 GMT+0200 (CEST) Sumati Yengkhom, The Times … Read more

“With literature comes memory and so many meaningful traditions”: Linguist Ganesh Devy at Sahitya Akademi conference on Contemporary Creative Expression in India

Professor GN Devy feels that alternate media should be used to make literature reach to a wider audience Parul Bajaj, Indian Express, Tue Jul 19 2011 Almost everyone in India knows the Mahabharata, but no one has read it. Listening is also a literary experience and oral and written traditions cannot be separated. With literature comes … Read more