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Fifty years of the India's first Adivasi massacre Rupaspur-Chandwa  

Rupaspur-Chandwa (1971-2021) between Constrained
Democracy and Silent Literature

50 years ago, on 22 November 1971, the first Adivasi massacre took place over the question of land in the village of Rupaspur-Chandwa in Purnia district of undivided Bihar-Jharkhand.

In this massacre, the private army of landlords had indiscriminately fired bullets at Santal Tola located in Rupaspur-Chandwa village of Dhamdaha block and set the entire village on fire. In this brutal massacre, 14 Adivasi Santals were burnt alive which included women and children.









The country's first visual storyteller workshop focused on the understanding and production techniques of cinema from a tribal perspective was organized by Jharkhandi Bhasha Sahitya Sanskriti Akhara from 23 to 30 June 2019 in Ranchi. The objective of the Visual Storyteller Workshop was to acquaint the youth with all forms of visual storytelling, not just film. The idea was to broaden the youth's understanding of the politics and beauty of art and cinema because every word, every visual and every frame is politics.

The purpose of this program is to learn Adivasi worldview and aestheticism, to understand and to share with the community, especially the youth and the new generation. This program has been conceived as a five-day residential teaching-training workshop. In which the young participants and elders will share their knowledge and experiences with each other in the affinity of the community and nature. The main aspects of this program are: What is Adivasi way and how it looks at itself as well as in all aspects of planet, how it behaves with them, how to interpret mutual relationships and coexistence.