When the Central Bureau of Investigation registered a case against Arunachal Pradesh lawyer and environmental activist Bhanu Tatak last month, many expected the community she had spent years defending to stay quiet. They were wrong. The Siang Indigenous Farmers’ Forum Youth Wing (SIFFYW) came out swinging on September 16, issuing a sharp condemnation of the … Read more
Bhanu Tatak has spent years fighting to protect Arunachal’s rivers. Now, the Central Bureau of Investigation has come knocking — and the charges couldn’t be more loaded. It isn’t every day that an environmental activist ends up in the CBI’s crosshairs. But for Bhanu Tatak — lawyer, activist, and one of the most vocal voices … Read more
The ink on his bail order was barely dry. Within 24 hours of walking free, indigenous land-rights activist Pranab Doley found himself locked up again — this time under a law so sweeping, the courts can’t touch him for up to a year. The Arrest That Defied a Bail Order On July 30, the Assam … Read more
