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Long dry spells, erratic rains, an unorganized market and lack of clarity on forest rights have dealt a blow to the livelihoods of the state’s indigenous people.
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
“I will eat mahua and I will also make sweets. My children too will eat it,” Sukhmani Devi breaks into a song. The song the 50-year-old from Jharkhand’s Kope village is singing is tinged with nostalgia for the days of abundant forest produce, mahua flowers being one of them. As India headed for its driest August in over a century, members of Jharkhand’s tribal communities, like Devi, who rely on forest products for their livelihoods, desperately hoped for the rains—only to be disappointed.
At the tail end of the monsoon season, Jharkhand …
India is ramping up focus on defence drones, and the decade-old startup wants public money to seize the opportunity. But the track record of listed peers offers a cautionary tale.
With extreme weather hurting their precious cattle and seasonal migration, the long-neglected pastoral tribe of Van Gujjars is fighting a dire—and lonely—battle for survival.
Millions of India’s landless Dalits who migrate to cities looking for work face the prospect of even worse conditions, triggered by extreme weather events.
