The Spirit of the Tribe: Can Maharashtra’s Mahua Policy Empower or Exploit?
For centuries, the Mahua flower has been at the heart of tribal life in...
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The Great Indian Conversation: How Village Deities and Sacred Texts Shape Each Other
How can a single civilization contain thousands of unique village deities, local customs, and...
The Invention of Poverty: How Arturo Escobar Deconstructed the ‘Development’ Myth
For over seventy years, “development” has been the grand project of our time—a self-evident...
A Conflict in Numbers: The NCRB’s Damning Data on Violence Against Manipur’s Tribes
For over a year, harrowing stories of violence have emerged from the conflict-torn state...
The Million-Year-Old Skull That’s Rewriting Our Family Tree
For decades, the story of human evolution has been told with a certain confidence:...
From Protest to Tragedy: State Violence and the Cry for Justice in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
In the historically restive hills of southeastern Bangladesh, a community’s cry for justice has...
The Space Where Magic Happens: Understanding Victor Turner’s ‘Liminality’ and ‘Communitas’
Think about a major life transition: a wedding, a graduation ceremony, or even the...
The Bow and the Brand: How a Jharkhand Archery Team is Reviving a Warrior History
When a new sports franchise is named, it seeks a title that evokes power,...
A Promise Unfulfilled: The Political Tug-of-War Over Ladakh’s Sixth Schedule Status
In the high-altitude landscape of Ladakh, a political storm has been brewing, centered on...
Not Power, but Purity: Louis Dumont’s Revolutionary Theory of Caste
What is the ultimate foundation of the Indian caste system? Is it a system...