Recently, in a roadshow in Jharkhand as part of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi invoked the slogan of jal, jangal, jameen when addressing people. Not many of us know that the words, is a slogan coined by the Gond tribal hero Komaram Bheem in the early 20th century. Statue of Komaram Bheem at Tank Bund Road, …
Tribal people, who account for 8.6 per cent of India’s population, about 110 million people, can be broadly classified into three groupings. Late Prof. Nihar Ranjan Ray, one of our most distinguished historians, described the Central Indian Adivasis as “the original autochthonous people of India”, meaning that their presence in India pre-dated by far the Dravidians, the Aryans and whoever …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been unflagging in his promotion of yoga. During his tenure, he laid the foundation stone of the first-ever Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi and has been endorsing Indian art through the gifts he gives his foreign counterparts Since coming to power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ushered in a sea change. Modi also …
It wasn’t inevitable that the histrionic Indian epic RRR would be the mammoth global success it’s now become. Rolling Stone deemed it “the best and most revolutionary blockbuster” of the year; sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen calls it “three hours of anti-colonialist AWESOMENESS.” Indian films don’t often get this kind of ubiquity, but RRR’s breakout success is even more …
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