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Dive into Outlook's latest issue exploring the Adivasi identity and the philosophy of indigenous tribes. Join Jacinta Kerketta, a young Udaon Adivasi poet and journalist, as she discusses the clash between tribal values and capitalist ideologies. Discover the roots of the tribal world within us and the struggles faced by tribal communities worldwide.   #AdivasiIdentity #TribalPhilosophy #OutlookMagazine #CapitalismVsTribalism #GlobalStruggles

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00:00 Outlook brings to you excerpts from its latest issue titled 'Adivasi' or 'The Earliest Inhabitants'.

00:07 This issue of Outlook looks at the politics of appropriation and resistance in the wake of recent

00:13 developments in the states like Jharkhand and the Union Territory of Ladakh. With the general

00:19 elections due this year, it remains to be seen how the Adivasis, who form more than 8% of the total

00:27 population, participate and how the identity politics shape up in the future.

00:33 The Adivasi Way by Jacinta Kerketa. Jacinta is a young Orao Adivasi poet,

00:40 writer and freelance journalist from Jharkhand. A lot of effort is on in India and the world

00:46 to identify the values that form the life force of the tribals and to snuff them out.

00:52 There are only two ways or philosophies of life in the world today that are at war with each other

00:58 in the true sense - the indigenous tribal way and the capitalist way. The conflicts may appear

01:05 in different forms but at the root they resolve into either of those two streams.

01:10 Being an Adivasi or tribal is not a prerequisite to understanding the tribal world and its

01:16 philosophy. Many who were born outside tribal society and dream of a better world incline

01:23 quite spontaneously over the course of their search to the tribal way. This is perhaps

01:28 because the roots of the tribal world live on inside us. Looking inwards, many of us discover

01:35 the same tribal world from which all human beings evolved. At the same time, many tribals who live

01:42 and conduct their struggle in the light of their own tribal philosophy actually share the concerns

01:48 that define people's struggles the world over, though they may be unaware of any kind of 'ism'

01:55 and untouched by the ideas of any thinker. In a world built around competition, people get

02:01 their happiness and thrill from winning, defeating others, humiliating them and waving flags at them.

02:08 Therefore, when someone loses, when someone collapses, when someone dies or when someone

02:14 is murdered, it is par for the course of the competitive mind. In other words, it is simply

02:21 what it takes to win. A competitive lifestyle breeds insensitivity. It justifies violence

02:27 and propagates a strong narrative against resistance. The philosophy and community

02:34 that oppose the hegemonic worldview are labelled anti-development. The dissident

02:39 tribals are branded as naxalites and the imperatives of development and religion

02:45 dictate that they be eliminated. The caste system in India, with its supremacism, patriarchy and

02:52 competitiveness, couples comfortably with capitalism, resulting in a mutually reinforcing

02:58 alliance. That is why India's casteist mindset is always seen standing with the dictatorial psyche

03:06 at the global level. For this and more, read the latest issue of Outlook.

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