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Are we waiting for the Jarawas to re-invent the wheel?

The Andaman & Nicobar Islands which made headlines after the 2004 Great Sumatra Andaman Earthquake, is once again making headlines in the national as well an international media following release of a video clip featuring Andaman’s Jarawa tribe by a British media. Immediately other NGO’s, media houses, activists and their likes switched to campaign mode releasing reports and updates almost on a day-to-day basis, many of which are drifted miles away from truth.

What it emerges out of the campaign launched by some NGO’s at the international level supported by national as well as few local counterparts and activists is in-reality an attempt to project the Great Andaman Trunk Road (referred as ATR) as the culprit and generate an anti-island rhetoric which eventually would ensure their survival in the run for bread and butter. Sadly some of our intellectuals, NGO’s and activists having sound knowledge and fair understanding of island conditions too had gone blind to the fact that Jawaras had been co-existing with settlers peacefully for the last more than six decades and that ATR is not used by tourists alone but by islanders since ship route is highly uncertain and marred by inclement weather conditions.

The full article is available here : http://debkumarbhadra.blogspot.in/2012/02/are-we-waiting-for-jarawa...

Tags: ATR, Jarawas, SouthAndaman

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Permalink Reply by sheo raj kishen on February 23, 2012 at 19:10

Mr debkumar,dont be so selfish for earning something ,everyone knew that now their life is in danger and we all must have to do something to protect them.ATR is a life line,OK i agreed but without ATR also we can survive,there is a alternate solution for north and middle andaman but can u tell that any alternate solution u have if their life will be in risk and their numbers will reduce,they are innocent and they dont know any game(chaalbazi) like we know and we proud ourself that we are civilised but still we want to enjoy at the cost of their life and area,they are the original inhabitants of this islands and we civilised people enchraoched their living area and disturbed their peacful life.

my dear debkumar ji,when each and evry things can brought from mainland to andaman then why cant to north and middle andaman,still u are having many islands which cant be connect but the life are very smoothly going,because they know how to live with the situation.