Voices

The Tribals/Adivasis/Indigenous people of India are/were never Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Budhists..etc. The fundamentalist forces say that they are Hindus by birth which is not true. Because the type of workshop these Tribals do is completely different than the Hindu religion. The Christian Missionaries said that they don't have religion which is not true. They have a peculiar and unique way of worship. They do not have structure form of worship. However, they perform their worship near river or springs, on the top or below the hills, in or near forest by offering water, milk, incenses, flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, crops, cut animals or birds and try to satisfy God/gods/spirits by offering their blood, heads or heats..etc. The government of India calls them as Schedule Tribes and includes them in Hindu population in Census.

Bhubaneswar: 19/02/2015- A two days workshop was conducted on TSP by Indigenous People’s Forum – Odisha (IPFO) in collaboration with ISI New Delhi, OROSA Bhubaneswar, ANGANA Sundargarh and Samajik Seva Sadan Sundargarh under the banner ADIBASI DARBAR at Red Cross Bhubaneswar on 15th and 16th February 2015. The 17 number of different tribes out of 62 tribes had gathered together to express their views on the implementation of TSP after being enlightened by the imminent resource persons; Dr. Danzil D’suza from ISI New Delhi and Dr. Bipin Jojo from TISS Mumbai. After hearing from the participants who were a group of adivasi intellectuals from 17 different tribes of Odisha, the honorable guest of the day honorable Minister of state for commerce and transports department in government of Odisha shri Ramesh Chandra Majhi promised to schedule a date for a Tea Time Meeting with all Adibas MLAs of the state and IPFO members (representative of 62 tribes of Odisha) in the assembly hall short...