Session 11: Resisting State Narratives Normalising Violence and Displacement in Adivasi Regions
Date: Thursday 16 April 2026
Time: 8:00 pm India; 3:30 pm London; 10:30am New York
Registration link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gneo0RyHSsGe9NEyOVGD0g
Speakers
Sharanya Nayak, Solidarity worker with Indigenous Peoples’ movements
Clifton D’Rozario, General Secretary, All India Lawyers Association for Justice
InSAF India invites you to join the penultimate session of the series: Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) People’s Resistance in India. The series critically interrogates the Indian state’s 2026 “Maoist-free” deadline and its violent consequences for Indigenous lives and livelihoods.
This session will examine the narrative used since January 2024 to normalise the intensification of militarisation and state violence in Adivasi regions. Commonly called Operation Kagar or the Precipice, this has been promoted as the final solution to a longstanding insurgency problem. In addition, in the weeks leading up to the “deadline”, a rise in targeting of activists in urban areas has also occurred. The session will discuss the urgent need for civil society to understand and challenge the state narrative of the criminalisation of Adivasi resistance in the backdrop of the ‘Trumpian moment’ the world is going through – the normalisation of criminalisation and violent crushing of all forms or resistance and dissent.
Registration link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gneo0RyHSsGe9NEyOVGD0g
International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India)