Unable to bear expenses, Tripura tribal couple sell daughter for Rs 650

AGARTALA: In what highlights the sorry state of affairs in the backward areas of Tripura, a tribal couple in remote Dhalai district sold their girl child as they were unable to bear the expenses of the infant. The family belongs to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. A report published in a local paper said […]

AGARTALA: In what highlights the sorry state of affairs in the backward areas of Tripura, a tribal couple in remote Dhalai district sold their girl child as they were unable to bear the expenses of the infant. The family belongs to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. A report published in a local paper said […]

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Tripura tribal parties to meet Rajnath over separate state

Agartala: Seventeen months ahead of crucial assembly polls in Left-ruled Tripura, political parties, especially tribal-based parties, have stepped up their actions to push their demands including for a separate state. Two tribal-based political parties; Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), will organise “Delhi Abhiyan” (march to Delhi) to […]

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Agartala: Seventeen months ahead of crucial assembly polls in Left-ruled Tripura, political parties, especially tribal-based parties, have stepped up their actions to push their demands including for a separate state. Two tribal-based political parties; Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) and Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), will organise “Delhi Abhiyan” (march to Delhi) to […]

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Tribal remnants in Meiteis/Meeteis

I am neither an ethnographer nor a sociologist but certainly a student of history specialized in ancient history. We have studied the tribal ways of life in ancient period particularly of this sub-continent. Some of the prominent features of tribal ways of living are — nature-worship, ancestor-worship, dead burial, hunting-gathering, fishing, group dinning and wine(ing), […]

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I am neither an ethnographer nor a sociologist but certainly a student of history specialized in ancient history. We have studied the tribal ways of life in ancient period particularly of this sub-continent. Some of the prominent features of tribal ways of living are — nature-worship, ancestor-worship, dead burial, hunting-gathering, fishing, group dinning and wine(ing), […]

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Tripura tribal students stage peaceful sit-in protest in Delhi

Students from Tripura living across the national capital as well as from neighbouring city like Dehradun came together to show solidarity towards the indigenous people of their state and held a peaceful sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. Organised by International Tiprasa Forum under the theme ‘Justice for Indigenous People of […]

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Students from Tripura living across the national capital as well as from neighbouring city like Dehradun came together to show solidarity towards the indigenous people of their state and held a peaceful sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. Organised by International Tiprasa Forum under the theme ‘Justice for Indigenous People of […]

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