Leaders renege, but tribal collectivism holds forth

TAC betrays tribals at some tribal leaders instance

Is there hope?

Veteran anthropologist B K ROY BURMAN in conversation with SOPAN JOSHI

Tribal activist C K Janu speaks on adivasi issues and the Muthanga controversy

ARJUN MUNDA, the newly sworn in chief minister of Jharkhand, spoke to Down To Earth the day he announced his cabinet

BABULAL MARANDI was the Union minister of state for environment when he took over as the chief minister of Jharkhand in 2000. In March 2003, he resigned after his cabinet ministers turn against him. Down To Earth spoke to him a few days after his ouster

JOBA MAJHI, wife of the leader of Singhbhum's Jungle Andolan, Devendra Majhi, is in her second term as member of the legislative assembly from a breakaway faction of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. She was a minister in the Bihar cabinet and she remained a mi

YAMUNA SINGH, Jharkhand's minister of environment and forest since the state's creation, is from the Kharwar tribe. Down To Earth spoke to him about the controversial forestland issue and the Jungle Andolan of Singhbhum.

SHIBU 'GURUJI' SOREN of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has been a prominent figure in the struggle for Jharkhand and is equally well known for the JMM pay off scandal. A parliamentarian from Dumka constituency, he spoke to Down To Earth in Ranchi