
Tharu tribal women of Dudhwa battle for their right to the forest
Women from the Tharu tribal community, living in 46 villages of Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh, are the forefront of the fight to their community’s right to the forest.…
Tarun Kanti Bose is an avid writer and journalist, whose ear is on the ground. He has been writing on vast ranges of issues of critical importance, be it social, economic, environment, health, livelihood, indigenous people and nuclear. For the last three decades, he has been painstakingly doing fieldwork in the Adivasi areas, writing on their issues and trying to join their struggles. Prior to this study, he has documented the violations of Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 covering 11 states of India.