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TopicNomadic tribes

Topic: Nomadic tribes

A suffering tribe, an explosive case: Inside Delhi Sapera village at heart of ‘snake venom’ row

Five men from Delhi's Molarband village arrested for alleged involvement in Noida rave saga in which YouTube Elvish Yadav is also a suspect. They're out on bail, but residents say damage done.

Pandemic, Sudan strife leave Karnataka’s Hakki Pikki healers struggling — ‘debts up to our nose’

For decades, Hakki Pikkis have been going abroad to sell herbal medicine. But business has been hit hard in last few years and a mountain of debt now threatens to drown them.

Between China, climate change & development, Ladakhi nomads are losing grip on their land

With their access to grazing lands reduced due to climate factors and the army's security concerns, the Changpa nomads worry for their livelihood and the health of their livestock.

The 15-year-old Banjara market that could become the new Kathputli Colony of Gurugram

So far there have been no campaigns or plans to try and save the vendors of Gurugram's Banjara market from being rendered homeless and jobless.

How MP Excise Act systemically targets SC, ST, Vimukta communities

Researchers for CPA project analysed 540 FIRs and 5.62 lakh arrests under MP Excise Act to find the continuation of the colonial legacy of branding certain communities as ‘criminal tribes’.

Why 13 crore Indians are celebrating their ‘independence day’ today

Belonging to the Nomadic and Denotified Tribes, these Indians were considered born criminals under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 up until this day in 1952.

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.