Speakers:
Jacinta Kerketta, Poet, Journalist & Activist 
Santoshi Markam, Writer & Journalist 

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We are very grateful to our speakers for speaking candidly and with deep insight about how the escalated militarization and entry of extractive industries, and aggressive Hinduization have impacted the traditional socio-cultural fabric of Adivasi life, and their long-standing sustainable economic practices; and how Adivasis continue to resist the systematic attempts to displace and dispossess them and extinguish their existential connection with their jal, jangal, and jameen [water, land and forests]. 

Further reading:
Santoshi Markam, 9 August 2026 How Tribal Culture Is Reduced to a Spectacle at Government Events, The Wire India