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Hunger games – it’s the real India show
Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners
Bamboo under siege
Gadchiroli villages relinquish forest rights to Ballarpur paper mill
Maoist insurgency
Land struggles and growth of India’s red corridor
Fresh development plan for naxal-affected districts
Rural schemes to be more flexible; get more funds
Letters
'Maps of resource-rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'
Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent …
Mindless on the Maoists
Modi promises "development" to end the Maoist violence but slashes funds for essential jobs and food programmes
Second disempowerment
Tribals have lost their decision-making power twice; first to the state then to the Maoists
A search for a lost friend
Book>> Let’s Call Him Vasu: With The Maoists In Chhattisgarh • Shubhranshu Choudhary • Penguin Books • Rs 350
Private militias
Book>> Community Warriors, State Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar by Ashwani Kumar Anthem Press Delhi 2008 Price Rs 450
Salwa Judum: Nemesis of Chhattisgarh's tribals
Film>> India's Hidden War Directed by James Brabazon Produced by Sandra Jordan 30 minutes
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Chhattisgarh’s community news service on mobile phone helps tribal people find voice
No land for tribals displaced by Maoist-Salwa Judum conflict: Centre
Activists say that the displacement occurred because Chhattisgarh supported the Salwa Judum; Union minister Arjun Munda says Centre trying to …
Bastar beyond Maoists: tale of a rich region and its poor people
The obsession with insurgents is so deep that no one is paying attention to health and education in this ancient and beautiful land
On the trail of rampaging elephants
Down To Earth reporters visit human-elephant conflict zones and discover that affected people are increasingly venting their ire on forest staff …
Caught in crossfire
Chhattisgarh government withdraws support to people who took shelter in Salwa Judum camps
Identity under threat
Film>> Tuhya Dharma Koncha, directed by Satish Manwar, cast: Upendra Limaye, Vibhavari Deshpande, music by Dattaprasad Ranade
How tribal leadership in Chhattisgarh is helping people access rights
The civil society’s intervention in the tribal regions began in early 1980s on two issues-sustainable livelihood, particularly in forest …
Story from a divided land
The memoir celebrates Chhattisgarh but laments the lost opportunity for its inclusive and violence-free development
Pawns in conservation
Maharashtra forest department’s conservation model puts Madia tribals in Naxals’ line of fire
Tribal governance, Salwa Judum and Maoists
Maoist insurgents killed Mahendra Karma, founder of the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign, in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district on Saturday. …
Growing fences
Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic …