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Should We Ready for the Dirge of Demise? | Amarendra Kishore

Amarendra Kishore — 2024-08-11T01:16:14Z

Amidst hullabaloo of carbon plantation, research reveals that single-species carbon plantations threaten native flora and fauna, while delivering negligible benefits.
Ecologists caution that monoculture tree-planting initiatives pose a significant threat to tropical biodiversity, offering only marginal climate benefits. They emphasize that ecosystems such as the Amazon and Congo Basin are being reduced to mere carbon repositories, neglecting their intrinsic ecological value. Amidst the (…)

- 2024

How Long Will the Soap Opera Over the Tribal Museum Continue ? | Amarendra Kishore

Amarendra Kishore — 2023-09-23T02:22:30Z

Millions of indigenous people in the country will now see the beautiful representations of their traditions and cultural artifacts adorned in various museums across the country. At present, there are several such colorful museums. Recently, news appeared that many museums are being established throughout the country with the aim of familiarizing the new generation with the pride of tribal history and giving tourism a new boost in different tribal areas. These museums will preserve and (…)

- 2023

Tribal Identity and Callous Bureaucracy: Violation of Centre's Notification of 2003

Amarendra Kishore — 2014-08-08T17:40:12Z

In the third decade of the 20th century, the much popular iron-smelter community of Agaria was brought by the Britons from their ancestral land (name unknown) to Senduria village, a dusky hamlet in district Garwa of Jharkhand, to work in the local limestone pit. They were enduringly shifted there but their ancestral land (now under a reserved forest area where any activity is restricted) vanished forever; from that area they once used to obtain iron from hematite stone. Now the scions of (…)

- 2014

Undercurrents of Kaimur

Amarendra Kishore — 2010-03-01T14:59:43Z

Blood-curdling screams, spine-chilling blood-bath and heart-rending mass killings—these are an integral part of life in the Kaimur hills of Rohtas district in Bihar. With untamed dense forests, rain-kissed lush vegetation, challenging terrain, gushing waterfalls, black and brown valley, the Kaimur hills of Bihar, once known as mini-Chambal, where governance and adminis-tration have already been strangled by the Red guerrillas, are vibrating with the booming of guns. About three dozen tribal (…)

- 2010