Residential schools In Odisha, funded by mining companies, are impacting Adivasi communities in a sweeping way - a reminder of its dark global past.
“That’s how it is for us. Damned if you study, damned if you don’t” For @FiftyTwoDotIn supported by @IWMF https://t.co/FAaSC2r8Or
Very happy to share my first essay of the year in the current issue of Verseville, guest edited by the amazing poet @sarabjeetgarcha. I wrote it sometime last year, feverishly - assailed as I was by questions of home and loss.
Read the entire essay here: https://t.co/orivgnOtc5
India is among the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, yet Indigenous languages are marginalized. Read #IWMFGrantee@ssantoshini's latest piece on Centering Indigenous Languages in India's Schools in @yesmagazine. https://t.co/NL261e4lJU
India is among the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, but its Indigenous languages have been marginalized—along with those who speak them. @ssantoshini https://t.co/ILAo6uAw9N
"It’s been our resolution from the start that we’ll fight till we die and won’t leave our land."
#IWMFgrantee@ssantoshini reports on a village in #India fighting against a steel plant development for nearly two decades. https://t.co/HpfxBdBBIi
A village’s enduring resistance against a massive steelworks project highlights gaps in India’s environmental protections and human rights. https://t.co/gFdtjJvNMC
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Sarita Santoshini @ssantoshini | @FiftyTwoDotIn Residential schools for indigenous people have a long and dark history around the world. How they have changed the lives of young Adivasi people in Odisha’s mining-interest regions. https://t.co/0EReMZf0ei
Trends of anti-media violence, censorship, and legal intimidation could have disastrous consequences for the world’s largest democracy. https://t.co/yMRshU0sdK
Due to ethnic conflicts and floods, which displace millions of residents, as well as the state’s long history of economic underdevelopment, a large section of Assam’s population is extremely vulnerable to trafficking.
From July 2017, @ssantoshini: https://t.co/WNI7rT19sr
Trading privacy for safety? @ssantoshini explores the rise of facial recognition and CCTV in India - and the impact on women's agency:
https://t.co/N9hOqM2rny