Savitri-Fatima Centre for Peer Learning

Traditionally, the Adivasi people depend on the Dishari of their villages for many things, whether it be illness, a snake bite, or any other kind of medicinal need. The traditional use of root and leaf therapy always cured their disease, and throughout the modern medical sciences, this has been developed. If some illness did not cure after having that kind of traditional therapy, they believed it was the "ghost" (Duma), because they had never been associated with such a disease before. Not only the Adivasis, but many people in both rural and urban areas still rely on the Baba, the Gunia, and so on, and worship in the manner they advised.There are many diseases that we cannot cure because of a lack of medical facilities, unaffordable medical facilities, or a lack of awareness, whatever we call it, and in the past we believed in some kind of blind belief.And if Adivasis continue to believe in their traditional method of medication, it is due to the same lack of medical faciliti...

The education questions of Adivasis are far more contested than anything else in the Indian education system. We can trace this from the representation of Adivasi in politics of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and so on, to policy making. Apart from that, their representation in our Textbook clearly shows that our Dominant society or the so-called mainstream society needs to educate themselves, that “who are Adivasis?” We look at Adivasi from a social location where we are. Where our idea, thinking, and rationality are deep-rooted with Colonial and Brahmanical notions. Throughout our academic journey, from schools to universities, we look at Adivasi as backward, disadvantaged, illiterate, savage etc. Which are very much stereotypical and derogatory.  Such findings indicate that it is the orthodoxy and long-standing social system of the Adivasi that prevents them from being accommodated in the educational institution. This is how our teacher taught us in front of those Adivasi ...

The second wave of the corona is gradually winding down. Life is reverting to normalcy. Industry-business has started running smoothly only by crawling.   Efforts are also being made to restore the economy. People are creating plans for the future while ignoring past losses, yet, in front of the mass of the population, there is a matter of saving and sustaining livelihood, which is impossible to resolve under the current circumstances. So no, but it appears to be extremely difficult. Amid all the crises, the crisis prevailing on an important area looks unscathed by the concern and discussion of the people, but it is very reasonable to talk about it. That area is the domain of education, notably primary and secondary  school education . Corona has ruined the country’s public education system, as well as strengthen economic, social, and gender inequities in an area already riddled with anomalies and injustices. Passing the pupils without passing the exam may appear to be the acc...

  The person who cheats and attains the path of fooling others is stated as preferring ‘development by choice’ only by similar other thugs. Real development in life is of the same person who practices scientific, ethical and rational talk. A person of scientific nature encourages others to believe in reality and live in it. While a person fooling others shows them false dreams and develops the habit of living in fantasies, through which a man lives less in reality and more in his dreams, and instead of working on his present situation depends more on the future. In the caste system, the lower and middle-class castes are made to believe that their present condition is due to their previous birth and their condition would improve only by taking birth in the higher class in the next life. And in the next birth, the birth in the above category will be ascertained only if you perform the prescribed work of this birth with complete sincerity. Meaning there is no possibility of improving ...