Indigenous community

Beyond the festival stage: Identity in modern Bangladesh

Discover how cultural activist Tuku Talukder and designer Tenzing Chakma champion Bangladesh indigenous heritage, transforming traditional textiles, foods, and languages into vibrant, respected modern identities that inspire year-round national pride across generations.
3 August 2026

Language, power, and the erasure of Kol

The shift from ‘Kol’ to ‘Santali’ is not merely terminological; it denotes changing regimes of representation, power, and visibility.
20 February 2026

2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated
4 January 2023

Amid cold with no food, shelter

At least eight families of the Mro community, whose houses were allegedly set ablaze and vandalised by people of a rubber plantation in a village in Bandarban’s Lama upazila, are now living under the open sky, in the chilling winter cold.
3 January 2023

Books exploring the lives of indigenous peoples

The book is a complete treatise on the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
9 August 2021

37 families lose homes to arson

At least 37 landless families, mostly from the indigenous Pahan community, have been living in the open in Naogaon's Dhamurhat upazila since early Monday, when their shacks were burnt down while they were asleep.
26 March 2019

Mro life on the Sangu bank

The lady of the house carried the first batch of drinking water from the nearby dying Sangu River with her two-month-old daughter in tow.
6 May 2018

The vulnerability of ethnic minorities

It is a story that repeats over and over: An indigenous community living for generations in an area suddenly being told that they will be evicted because some influential has decided to use it for lucrative purposes.
25 December 2017

Brazil indigenous group 'attacked'

Members of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous community in western Brazil say they have come under attack from local farmers.
6 September 2015