The Adivasi Will Not Dance, a book of short stories by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, has been banned by the Jharkhand government on the grounds that it is offensive to the dignity of Santhal women. Some ...

Babies die. Girls are sold off, raped. Mothers are branded witches. No, there’s no easy way to read this collection of stories by Jharkhand’s Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar who won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva ...

The Jharkhand government told the state Assembly on Tuesday that it has found nothing objectionable in Sahitya Akademi award winning writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance, ...

In a bid to highlight the culture, traditions, way of life, and legacy of the state's indigenous groups, the state government is getting ready to host the two-day Jharkhand Adivasi Mahotsava here from ...

It was an unusual day for most of the Nashikites when they witnessed different dances performed by the Adivasi tribe The government officials felicitated Kavita Raut and Monika Aathare from the ...

Utnoor (Adilabad): Adivasi dance masters long years of struggle to keep their traditional Gussadi and Dhimsa art forms alive in the old Adilabad district and in bordering Maharashtra are beginning to ...

Adilabad: Adilabad Adivasi artistes captivated thousands of devotees at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj with their rendition of the “Kommu Koya” (bison horn) dance. The performance, held at Kalagram and ...

In 2013, in the hilly and forested area of Godda in Jharkhand, a cluster of Adivasi farmers gathered together a few miles away from where President Pranab Mukherjee was expected to arrive. They had ...

The three sections of the slim novel, My Father’s Garden, are given to three men and three relationships — each with the unnamed narrator. Writing in the first person for the first time made him ...

India is home to over 500 adivasi communities, making it the country with the world’s largest adivasi population. To bring their voices and heritage to the forefront, the National School of Drama (NSD ...