An arrangement to hold the World Anthropology Congress at KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India) was suddenly cancelled in August 2020 after online petitions, drafted by Adivasi activists and signed by many anthropologists and others, alerted many people to the scale of iniquity this arrangement represented

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/nh-impact-kiss-dropped-as-venue-of-world-anthropology-congress-2023

Adivasis are starting to write about their experience in boarding schools as never before

https://thewire.in/culture/alienation-adivasis-identity-culture-hinduisation-education

& the calamitous effects these have on tribal languages

http://www.adivasiresurgence.com/how-adivasi-languages-are-at-threat-by-dominant-cultures-and-states-apathy/

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