Delightful appearance

For tribal people, the thrill of food lies in the knowledge and awareness about picking the right food at the right time

Baiga tribals become India’s first community to get habitat rights

The administration used a gazette notification passed by the colonial British government, which recognised these areas as home of the Baigas, to …

Home is where mines are

Displaced Baiga tribals are returning to the forests taken over for mining by Reliance in Madhya Pradesh. They say they were short-changed by the …

Madhya Pradesh's century-old millet sikiya finds few revivalists

The Baiga community vouches for protein-rich sikiya but many have lost access. Deepanwita Gita Niyogi travels to Madhya Pradesh to find out what …

Land grab forcing Madhya Pradesh tribals to migrate

The struggle for land recognition is still on with tribals denied rights to own and cultivate even ancestral lands

Baigas get home

The vulnerable tribe in Madhya Pradesh is the first to get habitat rights in India. It is a landmark in the forests rights movement

How central Indian tribes cope with climate change impacts

Faced with erratic rainfall and extreme weather, tribal farmers of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh turn to bewar and penda forms of cultivation, …