Goldy M. George गोल्डी एम जार्ज

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Tributes have been pouring in for Abhay Flavian Xaxa, the tireless young Adivasi activist and scholar who passed away on 14 March 2020. Xaxa stood for justice, equality, liberty, dignity and harmony

Complaints against the security forces by Adivasis have been found to be investigated by the security forces themselves, sometimes even by the accused personnel, thus nullifying the role of the NHRC, writes Goldy M. George

Over the past decade there have been more than 3500 encounters as part of the anti-Maoist operations and nearly 2000 people have lost their lives. The police and the security forces have been allegedly involved in sexual assaults and even gang rapes. Yet, an NHRC camp to be held in Raipur has chosen to spare itself these horror stories

Tilka Manjhi was the first Indian to lead a people’s revolt against the British. Yet, our upper-caste historians go only as far back as the 1857 mutiny in search of freedom fighters. The Adivasi rebellions don’t figure in their accounts, writes Goldy M. George

Ambedkar’s call to ‘educate, agitate, organize’ applied to himself, too. He followed up his 40-odd acerbic writings in ‘Mooknayak’ about the injustice in Indian society and the Freedom Movement, with the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha to mobilize the awakened masses. His journalism stands in sharp contrast to the media today that is subservient to the State, writes Goldy M. George 

The recently released India State of Forest Report made the headlines for the finding that the forest cover has been increasing. The fine print of the report and other studies though suggest that the government is covering up the continuing loss of richly biodiverse forests with data on the increasing commercial monoculture plantations that leave Adivasis out of the picture, reports Goldy M. George

How did the exclusionary citizenship law of today come to be? Goldy M. George traces the birth of the Citizenship Act and the several amendments it underwent over the years and explains the implications of the hotly debated latest amendment

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Having exhausted all possibilities of achieving equality for the Untouchables within Hinduism, Ambedkar led in the burning of the code that held the religion together. This act symbolized his decision that he would not die a Hindu, writes Goldy M. George