Niyamgiri poised for voting on bauxite mining for Vedanta plant
The Supreme Court on April 18 ordered the villagers be provided with basic forest rights in form of the land titles
A recent show on a local Doordarshan channel about Dongria Kondhs, indigenous people who inhabit the plateaus of the Niyamgiri hill ranges in Odisha, ended with a scene where a young member of a tribe throws away some rupee coins given by a government official, asks for a matchbox instead and quickly vanishes into the jungle.
Publication Date:
11/07/2013