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  • Tribals are being treated like stray cattle

    <font class='Question'> Twenty seven year old <font class='UCASE'>chekkoth karian janu</font> has never attended school. But this has not prevented her from becoming a champion of the rights of the adivasi community native to Wayanad Kerala to wh

  • Jekyll and Hyde

    Adivasis in Gujarat are up in arms against a person who until recently was known as their spokesperson

  • Whaling reprieve

    Whaling reprieve

    at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (iwc) held in Aberdeen recently, the us was forced to eat humble pie. Its suggestion that the Makah tribe of Washington state

  • Under the umbrella

    Under the umbrella

    A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their children

  • Bamboo biodiversity

    Bamboo, the big brother in the Graminae (grass) family is often the first vegetation that sprouts in a degraded forest or a patch left after slash-and-burn agriculture. Most bamboo species

  • Pulp plunder

    The Indian paper industry (325 paper mills with a total installed capacity of 3.3 million t) meets around 60 per cent of its fibrous raw material requirements from bamboo, supply of which has

  • India's treasure-trove

    India"s treasure-trove Species Number NORTH-EAST REGION: &nbsp; Arundinaria Bambusa Chimonobambusa

  • A native renaissance

    A native renaissance

    Indigenous peoples of the world have been objects of downright apathy and brutal repression at worst, and mild tourist or academic interest at best for years. Today, they are fighting to overcome the shadows that dog their collective existence. And the wo

  • Asiawatch

    The prospect of an International legal Instrument recognising Indigenous peoples, rights to self-determination has had Asian governments in a tizzy. These governments have taken the stand that

  • Bloodied and damned

    A letter of protest Was written on May 9, to the World Bank (W8) president James Wolfensohn, by the International Rivers Network and the human rights group Witness for Peace, calling for an

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