The Adivasi Will Not Dance, a book of short stories by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, has been banned by the Jharkhand government on the grounds that it is offensive to the dignity of Santhal women. Some ...

It was an unusual day for most of the Nashikites when they witnessed different dances performed by the Adivasi tribe The government officials felicitated Kavita Raut and Monika Aathare from the ...

Babies die. Girls are sold off, raped. Mothers are branded witches. No, there’s no easy way to read this collection of stories by Jharkhand’s Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar who won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva ...

In a bid to highlight the culture, traditions, way of life, and legacy of the state's indigenous groups, the state government is getting ready to host the two-day Jharkhand Adivasi Mahotsava here from ...

Adilabad: Adilabad Adivasi artistes captivated thousands of devotees at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj with their rendition of the “Kommu Koya” (bison horn) dance. The performance, held at Kalagram and ...

Utnoor (Adilabad): Adivasi dance masters long years of struggle to keep their traditional Gussadi and Dhimsa art forms alive in the old Adilabad district and in bordering Maharashtra are beginning to ...

In 2013, in the hilly and forested area of Godda in Jharkhand, a cluster of Adivasi farmers gathered together a few miles away from where President Pranab Mukherjee was expected to arrive. They had ...

The three sections of the slim novel, My Father’s Garden, are given to three men and three relationships — each with the unnamed narrator. Writing in the first person for the first time made him ...

India is home to over 500 adivasi communities, making it the country with the world’s largest adivasi population. To bring their voices and heritage to the forefront, the National School of Drama (NSD ...

Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...

Over 8,000 youths from the state’s tea/Adivasi community performed their traditional Jhumoir dance in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and envoys of over 50 countries at the Sarusajai stadium on ...

The Jharkhand Adivasi Mahotsav - 2023 is all set to kick off in Ranchi from Wednesday, on International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, officials familiar with the matter said. Jharkhand ...