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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicBirsa Munda

Topic: Birsa Munda

Modi govt’s Rs 6,000 cr pre-poll bonanza for tribals not a first. How BJP’s wooed adivasis over the yrs

First hint of BJP's outreach came way back in 2021, when Modi govt announced that tribal legend's birth anniversary would be celebrated as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas.

Hemant Soren’s divide-and-rule Adivasi politics at Harvard is against Birsa Munda’s vision

Jharkhand CM Soren may have played into the hands of modern-day missionaries or possibly acted at the behest of the conversion bogey.

In Jharkhand polls, parties woo tribal voters with slogans, statues but don’t understand them

The slogan ‘jal, jungle, zameen’ (water, forest, land) has been central to affirming tribal identity in Jharkhand. And no local election speech omits it.

Birsa Munda — freedom fighter ‘Dharti Abba’ who championed tribal rights

The state of Jharkhand was created on Munda’s birth anniversary to commemorate his contribution to the freedom struggle.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.