ADIVASIS  and  FORESTS
Adivasis and forests - is a topic that is simple, yet complex to understand.  An Adivasi - Forest relation will never be wholly comprehensible to this writer or to even the best anthropologist, but only to the Adivasis.

Though the Adivasis are the first settlers, it is ironic that they are the very ones who have been asked today to prove their domicile over the country's forests.  Never has history looked at their culture or their connection with forests from the Adivasi perspective. Rather, society has looked at forests as a patch of greenery that is "to be kept" bereft of human presence and only to be enjoyed as a leisure environment. Now, forests are being denied to the very people who survive on them, just like a child on mother's milk, but forest lodges are given to Corporates to have their weekly meetings. How is it that the forest department makes a ruckus over a few Adivasi fisherfolk fishing for their livelihood in Satpura National park, but doesn't raise a whimper over the intention of the MP government to open beer bars and a casino inside a sanctuary? Could there be a bigger irony and such disparity within the human society?  Humans are the only species which torment their fellow beings for pleasure or greed.