In 2003, a jan sunvai (public hearing) was held in Delhi which was attended by adivasi and forest dwellers’ organisations from across the country. The jan sunvai attempted to bring out the terrible situation that the country’s forest dwellers faced in the wake of hostile government action and eviction orders.

The report of the jan sunvai – titled Endangered Symbiosis – offers a unique glimpse of a moment in history, and the situation that the country faced just before the movement for the FRA took off. It has brief reports on most of the country’s major states as well as on the national picture. You can read it here: