Archive for September, 2008

Harshit Lakra Ford Fellow

Johar ! This is Harshit Lakra Ford Fellow from Cohort 06, presently studying in Cornell University in the department of City and Regional Planning with major in Economic and Community Development. I am writing this message in response to Mr & Mrs John Ekka, Ms. Bela Lakra and many of our chotanagpur in US members [...]

No Respite – Gladson Dungdung

Poorly rehabilitated, adivasi families displaced by the Malay Dam in 1983 in Palamu of Jharkhand are now accused of encroaching on forest land GLADSON DUNGDUNG The adivasis, mostly the victims of the development process in India, rarely reap the benefits of it. The three buzz words – compensation, rehabilitation and development—are widely propagated during the [...]

Celebration of Karam Parab 2008 in Shillong

One of the biggest annual events for Adivasis in Shillong “KARAM PARAB” will be celebrated on 28th September 2008. Shree Prithvi Majhi, Minister of Labour & Employment, Tea & Ex-Tea Welfare, to the Govt. of Assam, will be the Chief Guest. More than 1000 people from all walks of life are expected to be present [...]

Tea cell swings into action

The cell swung into action after the All Assam Tea Tribes Students Association and the All Adivasi Students Association of Assam demanded a Rs 500-crore … Read it full at Calcutta Telegraph

Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda

Rashmi has posted this clip at Joharadivasi Network, its uploaded at YouTube from GodIncorporated