Over 100 people reached Karmatar in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district to pay tributes to Bengali polymath Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar on his 200th birth anniversary on Saturday, despite cancellation of ...

The painting on the wall shows two ebony male figures with bows and arrows. “Sidhu and Kanhu,” says Ruby Hembrom, by way of introduction. “They are very important for us, the Santhals. This pain...

Gopal Nagar Dakshin Palli in Bengal’s Birbhum district is a tribal village. The drive from Bolpur town to the house of Nilu Mardi, the village headman, takes all of half an hour. The reason behind t...

Jean-Frederic Chevallier arrived in India for the first time in 2007. He was shooting a film essay or cinematic essay. His work brought him to Calcutta, where he spent three days. “I found life over...

As many as 50,000 participants from India and abroad came for the two-day tribal International Sarna Mahadharam Convention, which started on Thursday at Lugu hills in rebel-hit Gomia of Bokaro, 70km f...

Did the ban shake you? Did it affect your process in any way?I will be honest. Yes, the ban shook me. More than the ban, those attacks on the social media shook me and scared me. Also, I was suspended...

Nearly 8,000 Santhal residents of Gadra village, under Jugsalai assembly constituency around 15km south of the steel city, have threatened to boycott the vote on December 7 to protest the poor road co...

Jeetrai Hansdah stood out not for the large number of supporters and vehicles but for his Santhal attire while filing his nomination for Potka Assembly constituency on Monday at the district collector...

The ninth edition of the Santhal Premiere League or SPL is on. There are four participating teams at play in central Calcutta’s Maidan area. They have names such as Doreya Dukes, Sengel Strokers, Ha...

National Book Trust is set to publish research work undertaken by Dr Ram Dayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute and open a sales counter on its premises in Morabadi by the end of June. The deve...