COVER STORY
This issue of Outlook looks at the politics of ap𝓰propriation and resis🦩tance in the wake of recent developments in states like Jharkhand and in the UT of Ladakh.
Outlook Magazine - 01 March 2024
Adivasi
Adivasis have their own customary traditions and enshrined constitutional rights. Yet attempts are being made to not only take away their guaranteed privileges, but also to bღring them into the Hindu fold
Former chief minister of Jharkhand, Champai Soren, says that the Union Government has be🌱en suppressing Adivasi voices and leadership
After the abrogation of Article 370, Ladakhi leaders hoped the government would act to p𝄹ro❀tect their tribal identity
A network of Hindutva organisations has developed close relations with tribal socio-cultural groups in Northeasꦺtern states, with an agenda to portray indigenous faith as part of Sanatan Dharma, or Hinduism
A lot of effort is on in India and the world 🌜to identify the values th🔥at form the lifeforce of the tribals and to snuff them out
Nine months of violence have left the on﷽ce syncretic Manipuri society divided between tribalism, ethnic revivalism and religious 🐓majoritarianism
While governments at the state and centre make tall claims of being pro-Adivasi, tribals in the Andhra-❀T𝄹elangana region continue to lose their homelands and their grip over their rights
Irrespective of the ☂quality of education received in cities or in the tribal hinterland, Adivasis must arise and claim the promises of equality, justice, liberty and fraternity encoded in the Constitution to count as citizens rather than samples
T🍒he Last Island endeavours to navigate the extensive history of theဣ Andaman islanders. However, it lacks rigour
Adivasis have their own customary traditions and enshrined constitutional rights. 🌃Yet attempts are being made to not only take away their guaranteed privileges, but also to brin🌼g them into the Hindu fold
Former chief minister of🌺 Jharkhand, Champai Soren, says that the Union Government has been su⛄ppressing Adivasi voices and leadership
After the ℱabrogation of Article 370, Ladakhi leaders hoped the government would act to protect their tribal identity
A network of Hindutva organisations has developed close relations with tribal socio-cultural groups in Northeastern states, with an agenda to portray indigenous faith a🍸s part of Sanatan Dharma, or Hinduism
A lot of effort is on in India and the world to identify the values that form the lifeforce of the tribals and to snuff 🥀t🐽hem out
Nine months of viole𓃲nce have left the once syncretic Manipuri society divided between tribalism, ethnic revivalism and religious majoritarianism
While governments at the state and centre make tall claims of being pro-Adivasi,🦂 tribals in the Andhra-Telangana region continue tꦺo lose their homelands and their grip over their rights
Irrespective of the quality of education received in cities or in the tribal hinterlaꩵnd, Adivasis must arise and claim the promises of equality, justice, liberty and fraternity encoded in the Constitution to count as citizens rat🐬her than samples
The Last Island endeavours to navigate the extensive h🅠istory of the Andaman islan📖ders. However, it lacks rigour
OTHER STORIES
Publication of donor details following the Supreme Court order striking down electoral bonds may embarrass bo🍨th the BJP as w꧙ell as some regional parties
Farmers’ demand for MSP for all crꦰops, among other assurances, remain unfulfilled
Will the quotidian Ram in our mi𒅌nd and body be replaced by the victorious powerful Ram outside𓆉 in an inert stone house?
Clothing🌺 is inseparably linked to tribal identity. Each tribe has a unique desigღn language. Every embellishment, weave, and motif has a special meaning to the community
- The Events In 'Prophet Song' Are Happening Somewhere In The World Right Now: Irish Writer Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch's 'Prophet Song', which won the Booker Prize 2023, does much more than just speculate about an incumbent future
Author Brahma Prakaไsh turns the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences into a powerful metaphor to examine the human condition of contemporary India
Patna-based Sonu, nickna✅med Merio Rapper, entertains his cu꧃stomers by performing raps on themes like poverty, unemployment and inflation
First, our ancestors were termed uncivilised, savage, etc. Then, we were called illiterate, uncultured, backward, etc. Th🍌e Britishers tried to ‘civilise’ us.
