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{{short description|Indian fact-checking website}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Adivaani
| logo = Adivaani.png
| logo_size = 100px
| screenshot =
| foundation = 2012
| founder = Ruby Hembrom
| location_city = [[Kolkata]]
| location_country = India
| products = Web portal
| owner = Adivasi Tribe Foundation
| homepage = {{URL|https:adivaani.org/}}
}}
'''Adivaani''' is a platform that aims to support indigenous expression and assertion, based in [[Kolkata]], India. It is a publishing, archiving and chronicling outfit of and by [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous people]] of [[India]]'s [[Adivasi]] Tribes.

== History ==
In April 2012, Ruby Hembrom attended a four month publishing course,<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Nominee NDTV L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth Awards. 2016.|url=https://sites.ndtv.com/women-of-worth/nominee-ruby-hembrom/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=NDTV}}</ref> and on being confronted by the absence, invisibility and erasure of Adivasi representation in the curriculum and discourse, a common feature in many spaces she had been at, the idea began there.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chakrabarti|first=Ajachi|date=March 21, 2013|title=In their own words|url=http://old.tehelka.com/in-their-own-words/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=October 16, 2020|website=Tehelka}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=July 24, 2019|title=adivaani: Documenting The Spirit Of The Adivasis|url=https://www.thecuriousreader.in/essays/adivaani/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=October 16, 2020|website=The Curious Reader}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Mishra|first=Garima|date=April 27, 2013|title=Lending a Voice|work=The Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/lending-a-voice/1107153/0|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

adivaani was registered as a [[non-governmental organization]] on 19 July 2012,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bhattacharya|first=Budhaditya|date=August 30, 2013|title=A new voice|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-new-voice/article5075641.ece|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref> and became operational, and have produced 19 books thus far, including to anthologies.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shah|first=Manasi|date=June 15, 2013|title=Stories of the Santhals, by the Santhals|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/stories-of-the-santhals-by-the-santhals/cid/1692518?ref=culture_home-template|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

adivaani is the first publishing outfit of and by [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous people]] of [[India]] to publish in the English language,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Yengkhom|first=Sumati|date=December 31, 2013|title=Voice of the Santhals|work=The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Voice-of-the-santhals/articleshow/28157778.cms|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref> Hembrom co-opted two others to collaborate with,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sircar|first=Sushovan|date=May 18, 2013|title=Adivasi imprints get into print|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/adivasi-imprints-get-into-print-three-amateurs-launch-publishing-house-adivaani/cid/1287206|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> one of whom still remains with adivaani as a [[Volunteering|volunteer]].

== Meaning of adivaani ==
adivaani is a combination of Sanskrit word 'adi' meaning 'first', 'original', 'ancient' or 'earliest', and 'vaani' meaning 'voice'. adivaani translates to the 'first voices'.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mitra|first=Ipshita|date=September 6, 2019|title=Ruby Hembrom: ‘We never needed to write because we were living documents’|work=The Hindu BusinessLine|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/know/ruby-hembrom-we-never-needed-to-write-because-we-were-living-documents/article29350425.ece|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

== Work ==
adivaani aims to document and disseminate knowledge systems, tangible and intangible cultural facets of Adivasis in English and bi-lingual, creating a database of the authentic Adivasi voice, as recounted by them, using diverse [[multimedia]] channels, which can be accessible to indigenous people themselves.

adivaani has made a [[Documentary film|documentary]] film on the making and playing of the Santhal lute and fiddle, the Banam.

adivaani's first two bboks were released at the [[New Delhi World Book Fair]], 2013: [[Gladson Dungdung]]'s 'Whose Country is it anyway?' and, Ruby Hembrom and Boski Jain's 'We Come from the Geese'.

The theme of the book fair was 'Indigenous Voices: Mapping India's [[Folklore|Folk]] and Tribal Literature'.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kotamraju|first=Priyanka|date=February 8, 2013|title=It’s time Adivasis spoke about their anguish|work=The Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/-it-s-time-adivasis-wrote-spoke-about-their-anguish-/1071161|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* https://adivaani.org/
* Wessler, Heinz Werner. (June 3, 2020). [http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1438478/FULLTEXT02.pdf From marginalisation to rediscovery of identity: Dalit and Adivasi voices in Hindi literature.] Studia Neophilologica. Argington; Routledge, [[Taylor & Francis|Taylor and Francis]] Group.
* Dungdung, Gladson. (February 5, 2020). [https://www.iwgia.org/en/india/3536-nrc-impact-adivasis.html Indian citizenship laws have deep impact on Adivasis] . IWGIA.
* Dasgupta, Sangeeta. (September, 2018). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327595137_Adivasi_studies_From_a_historian%27s_perspective Adivasi studies: From a historian's perspective]. History Compass. Wiley.

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