Robert Xalxo from Jashpur in Chhattisgarh is telling us about Maghe festival whihc is commemorated to honor the new crop. He says in a big fair people from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orisssa assemble. Villagers invite the people who work on the filed and symbolically they worship upcoming twelve months

Robert Xalxo from Jashpur says this week elephants attacked an ashram building and enjured three sleeping students. When village people came to chase away the elephants they killed one villager. He says Chhattisgarh government is not giving any attention to people’s demand and it looks eco tourism and continuing elephant menace is a strategy of the government by which they want to remove tribals from the forest areas in this mineral rich state