For years, the Maharashtra state government has been trying to rope in the Madia Gond community in Gadchiroli district into mainstream education, but the lack of connection between Madia language, and ...

Women of the Madia tribe in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra are involved in making cloth pads - something they had no access to till recently. The older women of the tribe never wore sanitary napkins or pads ...

Bhamragarh: Project officer and Etapalli assistant collector Shubham Gupta, who conceptualized the ongoing Madia Sanskrutik Mahotsav at Bhamragarh, said popularising a culture is the best way to ...

Nagpur: Neither the rattling guns of Maoists and police nor the acute backwardness of her native village, nestling deep in forest on border of Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border, could sway the ...

Bandu is a member of the Madia tribe. He lives in Kiyar village in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. For Bandu and a few thousand others of his tribe, collecting tendu leaves for beedi-making is a ...

Gadchiroli: Home to the Gond tribe in the naxal area of Gadchiroli, Lokbiradari Prakalp is a residential school initiated by Dr. Baba Amte. Cut off from the civilization and forms of basic rural ...