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Stop Operation Kagar!
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#India#indian#Republic of India#Operation Kagar#Operation greenhunt#CPI (Maoist)#Maoism#imperalism#semi colonialism#anti imperialism#anti war#war#genocide#dalits#marxism#marxism leninism#marxism leninism maoism#students#students movment#Adivasi#Adivasis#dalit#modi#narendra modi#fuck modi#bjp#western imperialism#adani group#mining#chattisgarh
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Dalits and Adivasis should not be identified only as the poor and migrant working class that is dependent upon the benevolence of corporate social responsibility for their livelihood. Instead, these groups should be advanced as the essential components of urbanisation, industrial production and technological innovations. More affirmative action policies are required to democratise the niche sphere of big businesses so that the Dalit-Adivasi class should also emerge as industrialists, market leaders and crucial influencers in the global economy.
Harish Wankhede, ‘The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies’, Hindu
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#iftu#Condemns#government#attacks#adivasis#indianfederationoftradeunion#secretary#msrinivas#Naxalite#foreign
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Desiblr, there is a donation campaign by registered organization Help for Deprived Children [@/helpdeprived on Instagram] currently, to acquire winter clothes for Dalit Adivasi kids in Madhya Pradesh. Consider helping them on Gpay or netbanking. Here are some estimated costs from their page. You can find their campaign post below.


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Their official org page:
#desiblr#desi#donations#signal boost#mutual aid#dalit#adivasi#india#donation campaigns#fundraiser#Instagram
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"Winning what’s been called the ‘Green Nobel’ an Indian environmental activist has been recognized for saving a 657 square-mile forest from 21 coal mines.
From the New Delhi train station to high-end hotels to the poorest communities, virtually no one in India is free from periodic blackouts. As part of the Modi regime’s push for a developed and economically dominant India, power generation of every sort is being installed in huge quantities.
GNN has reported this drive has included some of the world’s largest solar energy projects, but it also involves coal. India is one of the largest consumers of coal for electricity generation, and Hasdeo Aranya forests, known as the “Lungs of Chhattisgarh,” are known to harbor large deposits.
The state government had been investigating 21 proposed coal mining blocks across 445,000 acres of biodiverse forests that provide crucial natural resources to the area’s 15,000 indigenous Adivasi people.
Along with the Adivasi, tigers, elephants, sloth bears, leopards, and wolves, along with dozens of endemic bird and reptile species call this forest home. It’s one of India’s largest intact arboreal habitats, but 5.6 billion metric tons of mineable coal threatened to destroy it all.
Enter Alok Shukla, founder of the Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee, which began a decade ago advocating for the protection of Hasdeo through a variety of media and protest campaigns, including sit-ins, tree-hugging campaigns, advocating for couples to write #savehasdeo on their wedding invitations, and publishing a variety of other social media content.
Shukla also took his message directly to the legislature, reminding them through news media coverage of their obligations to India’s constitution which enshrines protection for tribal people and the environments they require to continue their traditional livelihoods.
Beginning with a proposal to create a single protected area called Lemru elephant reserve within Hasdeo that would protect elephant migration corridors and cancel three of the 21 mining proposals, Shukla and the Adivasi began a 160-mile protest march down a national highway towards the Chhattisgarh state capital of Raipur.
They hadn’t even crossed the halfway mark when news reached them that not only was the elephant reserve idea unanimously agreed upon, but every existing coal mining proposal had been rejected by the state legislature, and all existing licenses would be canceled.
“We had no expectations, but the legislative assembly voted unanimously that all of the coal mines of Hasdeo should be canceled, and the forest should be saved,” Shukla says in recollection to the Goldman Prize media channel.
“That was a very important moment and happy moment for all of us.”
Shukla shares the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize with 5 other winners, from Brazil, the US, South Africa, Australia, and Spain."
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-via Good News Network, May 20, 2024. Video via Goldman Environmental Prize, April 29, 2024.
#forests#india#conservation#deforestation#conservation news#goldman prize#biodiversity#coal mining#coal#climate action#climate hope#fossil fuels#environmental issues#indigenous#human rights#adivasi#nature reserve#hasdeo#good news#hope#hope posting#Youtube
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TIRED of indians waking up and posting condolence msgs for ratan tata's death! this man was a genocide enabling billionaire... FUCK your condolences.
#just cause he donates to your fave ngo's it doesn't take away from how he's known for grabbing land from adivasis (indigenous tribes)#or for helping israel in their war mongering - look up tata advanced systems and what they do#ratan tata#keshika rambles
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something that hindutva types (and north indian supremacists generally, which are overlapping but not quite the same categories) get really angry about is whenever you mention that the people of the indus valley civilization were very probably actually dravidian-speaking "south indians" rather than indo-aryan-speaking "north indians" because indo-aryan speakers didn't exist/half of our ancestors hadn't migrated from the central asian steppe yet. bc indo-aryan speakers are descended from native dravidian-speakers and these central asian steppe peoples and they don't arrive to the region until the time of the vedas which happens much later. north indian supremacists refuse to believe that dravidians could have built the oldest civilization in the region bc it entirely contradicts the hindutva line about north indian hindus being the indigenous people of south asia. anytime this is mentioned hindutvas go fucking crazy like frothing rage it's wild. when u see stuff about hindutvas changing the history books to be more in line with hindutva ideology this is part of that
#not to mention that there are indigenous ppl in india (the adivasis) who are treated brutally#like the thing is if you have south asian ancestry you are probably descended from the indus valley people#but who gets to claim Direct descent or cultural descent or whatever is heavily politicized
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Godna, also known as Khoda, is an ancient traditional form of tattoo art originating from the tribal communities of Northern and Central India. These tattoos are characterized by intricate designs and vivid colors, often depicting elements of nature, mythology, and daily life.

The Baiga tribeswoman's tattooed entire body


A tribal hand tattoo in a market in Jaipur, India.

A Tribal woman, in a forest of Central India, fashions a tattoo on her muscular biceps.

An ethnic Adivasi woman from the Kutia Khond tribal group in Orissa, India.

Woman displaying traditional tattoos on her hands. Resident of Naiyyasi village, Bihar, India.

Femmes et enfants de la tribu Baiga, India.
#tattoos#traditional tattoo#tribal tattoos#anthropology#ethnography#india#women#khond#baiga#baiga tribe#body modification#godna#khoda#adivasi#scheduled tribes#my upl
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can u elaborate on bengali culture being appropriated from santhal culture. i assume you're talking about those aspects which are today associated with UC bengalis or am i off track
Not exclusively santhal but a lot of the hallmarks of Bengali culture have roots in adivasi communities. The iconic shankha-pola is from a practice among fishing tribes in Sunderban. A lot of bengali wedding practices like the gnatchhora, blessing the bride and groom with grass on the forehead, the gaachkouto, kolka on the bride's forehead, the palki, carrying the bride for shubhodrishti, all have origins in santhal wedding practices. Alpona is also derived from santhal house paintings.
The clay and terracotta jewellery of Shantiniketan, popular with uc intellectuals of college street and jadavpur, all originate from the santhals of birbhum. Also bindis on the chin and neck, septum rings, upper arm bracelets, ear coverings. A lot of the santhal artists creating artwork and jewellery are exploited as they are either hired as underpaid labourers or their work is bought in bulk wholesale by boutiques and jewellery pages in Kolkata, and sold at high prices while the actual creators never see the profits.
Not to mention the goddess Kali is derived from older adivasi goddesses, as are elements of Shakti and Tantrik traditions.
#im not going too deep into the religious aspect of it because that is whole other can of worms#appropriation only happens when elements of culture are stolen and used without giving any credit like in the examples i mentioned#unlike say dokra art or mask making from purulia where adivasis were able to retain the ownership and rights over the art forms#the unesco recognition for dokta art definitely helped with that#tina rambles
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Photo of a dead peasant women taken as a trophy, she was killed by Indian security forces as part of Operation Greenhunt, a ongoing genocidal campaign against Adivasis and Dalits in the name of fighting the CPI (Maoist)

#communist party of india (maoist)#india#indian army#operation greenhunt#genocide#dalits#Adivasis#marxism leninism maoism#marxism leninism#Marxism#communism#imperialism#anti imperialism#socalism
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Tribal village with warli paintings in Borivali.
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Stills from the film Ningwasum ᤏᤡᤱᤘᤠᤛᤢᤶ (2021) by Subash Thebe Limbu
#adivasi futurism#yakthung#yakthung nation#limbu#nepal#yakthung scifi#himalayas#nepali#indigenous futurism#indigenous scifi#adivasi scifi#desifuturism#south asian futurisms#Vimeo
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Natural consequence of styling Indian Hindus as indigenous. And calling systemic violence against minority communities "landback" and "decolonization", successfully co-opting the rhetoric of actual Indigenous communities around the world. This, even as they prepare to commit state sponsored genocide on the actual indigenous people of our country, in North Bengal, in the North East, in Lakshwadeep, everywhere.
#granted indigeneity works differently for various countries but yeah like if you're going to be biased as hell in your saffron washing#then let's call a spade and spade and acknowledge what the aryan ethnolinguistic groups did to the adivasis#and continue to do!
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white people inadvertently feeding into hindutva propaganda gets particularly vile in canada, with every yoga teacher and every yoga studio in this damn country taking "international yoga day" as a self evident politically neutral construct. for context, june 21st has been recognized as national indigenous peoples day in canada since 1996, which is solidly 2 decades before modi pulled that international yoga day nonsense. hindu nationalists literally have a rhetoric (and various political practices) of continuing the subjugation of people of scheduled tribes in india and their practices and way of life and access to resources and stuff and any of the Promoting Yoga and Hinduism stuff that the current admin does needs to be discussed in the context of that.
so like. all these canadian yoga people who have not fucking ONCE talked about indigenous people whose ancestral land were on (and how that land was occupied and at what cost). immediately jumping on a commemorative day essentially invented to do the work of subjugating the indigenous people of another part of the world. im gonna hurl
#my posts#yoga tag#esp vancouver like. thats unceded land. theres barely any native yoga teachers in vancouver#at least the ones here will sometimes say theyre commemorating both as an indigenous person who finds yoga to be helpful for them#but yeah like. not that im particularly knowledgeable but idk if the average white yoga teacher has so much as HEARD the term adivasi
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Mahasweta Devi, inaugural speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the occasion of India becoming the first country to be invited as the chief guest for the second time, 2006.
text id: [ …my country; torn, tattered, proud, beautiful, hot, humid, cold, sandy, shining India. My country. ]
#mahasweta devi#desi tumblr#desi academia#nerd stuff#poetry tumblr#desi culture#literature#desi literature#dalit rights#adivasi#india#indian#booksbooksbooks#social activism#human rights#women's rights#labor rights
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I think a lot about that story of the woman who was killed by an elephant who then came back to destroy her funeral and how everyone cheered for her death and all that, esp bc western media houses gave 0 context.
She was an adivasi tribal indigenous woman in India. It was not confirmed that she was poaching. Even if she was, it’s quite commonly known that western smugglers and game hunters pay indigenous people huge sums of money to help them kill these animals, and indigenous people all over the world accept this because they are kept in poverty by their own governments and by the remnants of colonialism. And the whole world was jeering at this old woman who was, at worst, just doing what she could for her family.
#sowmz rambles#like yeah ofc the elephant had every right to defend itself and its family#but white people cheering and celebrating her death did NOT sit right with me#fuck all of you#adivasi#elephant#india
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