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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

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Is the attitude of the media towards the happenings in tribal areas till the initial years of the 21st century not indicative of the fact that the communication structure that was put in place during the Santhal uprising was inherited by the mainstream media and it continued to serve the interests of everyone except the tribals?

Walter Fernandes says the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 clearly poses a threat to Tribal language, culture and identity in Northeast India. He dismisses the theory that the migration to the Northeast is the result of religious persecution in Bangladesh. The Bangladeshis come for land, he says. Excerpts from his interview with Goldy M. George

Bhante Suniti dismisses CAA 2019 as unconstitutional. She says it not only targets Muslims but also SCs, STs, OBCs and the illiterate and the landless at large. Excerpts from her interview with Goldy M. George

Prakash Ambedkar urges the nation to stand up to the BJP conspiracy to alienate the Muslims. He says that the CAA is a ‘black law’ that is dangerous for the Dalitbahujans. Nawal Kishore Kumar interviewed him

A series of unconstitutional measures by the State over the years led the Adivasi parganas and panchayats to engage in serious discussions on a mode of cultural resistance. They zeroed in on the pathalgadi as a way of enshrining their Constitutional rights and empowering themselves to keep the land-hungry corporates away

The Mysore University professor of media studies says implementation of reservation in India’s private sector – which includes most of the media organizations – is the surest way to make the media more representative

In conversation with FORWARD Press, Prakash Ambedkar says that outsourcing of jobs by the government departments is encroaching upon the rights of Dalitbahujans and that ‘equal work, unequal pay’ is unconstitutional