India, Jan. 20 -- India's Adivasis are on a razor's edge. That is how Jharkhandi Adivasi Gladson Dungdung would describe the precarious condition of his people in the wake of the CAA-NRC-NPR threat.
Dungdung has a point. Researcher and writer, he is more of an activist with his ear to the ground. In a recent YouTube video, Dungdung calls attention to his fellow Adivasis not to swallow the BJP government's move to count, recount and discount Indian citizens on the yardstick of religion and political compulsions.
Dungdung points out that the Adivasis living in the 5th Schedule areas have much to fear if NRC comes into force. The Fifth Schedule of the Constitution deals with the administration and control of Scheduled Areas as well as of S...