Development’s Shadow: How Projects in Karnataka Threaten Adivasi Land
On August 9, a signboard appeared outside the Nanachi gate of Karnataka’s Nagarahole Tiger Reserve. It read simply: “You are entering our ancestral land, respect it.” The board, put up by Adivasi residents of Virajpet taluk in Kodagu district, coincided with World Indigenous Day. Its message was clear—an assertion of rights over land and forests,…