Gladson Dungdung ग्लैडसन डुंगडुंग

Denying citizens’ rights to the Tribals of the Saranda forest, who are the original inhabitants of Singhbhum, is not only unjust but also shameful

The film brands Advasis as “shaitans” and portrays Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as an “insaan” who has been making “insaans” of these “shaitans”. There is nothing new in this assault on the identity and existence of Tribals. It has been happening for thousands of years

Over the last decade, the governments of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat have signed MoUs with foreign and domestic companies for setting up more than 500 industrial projects. Agreements have been signed with the Tata, Jindal, Mittal, Essar and Bhushan groups. The seriousness of the situation can be gauged from the fact that in the Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh alone, around 500 private companies are setting up their manufacturing plants

On 2 November 2014, Nagendra reached the Barwadih police station to register a case against the three policemen. The thanedar, however, refused to file an FIR. But Nagendra was not one to give up easily