Activists in West Bengal are at this point pondering over, debating and discussing the adverse impacts of the much touted mega open-cast coal mining project in Deocha-Pachami in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. While the adivasi villagers in the area are expressing their opposition to the mining project on their ancestral lands, and many […]
Fifteen years ago, on this day in 2006, 14 Adivasi villagers were killed in police firing at Kalinganagar in Odisha, when they resisted theforcible acquisition of their land by TISCO to set up a mega steel plant. To break the people’s resistance, the Odisha police went on a rampage and fired indiscriminately in order to […]
‘Resisting dispossession: The Odisha Story’ is a book written by Nigamananda Sadangi and Ranjana Padhi on people’s movements in Odisha, published in India by Aakar Books. It documents the struggles, based on testimonials of the people who lost their land, livelihood, culture, dignity as well as lives of their relatives, friends and members of their community […]