Title : We Need A Revolution
Author : Sachin Garg
Genre : Fiction
Location : Andaman and Nicobar
Theme : Exploitation of Jarawa Tribe
Book Theme :
Samar and his girl friend Navya set off a journey together to Andaman and Nicobar where they have to meet Lalwani for some advice to set up a business. Upon their arrival Lalawani took them to Jarawa reserve park and giving them a chance to meet Jarawa people while letting them know his grand plan of building a human safari and about his determination to enhance the Jarawa tribe's primitive life style to bring them to main stream.
There they happened to meet Jenny, a worker of Survivor International and Shubhro, a free spirited man who were working for the welfare of the Jarawa tribe. And very soon they had formed a group to fight against the exploitation and the ill-treatment that the Jarawas were facing by the outsiders.
And the whole story is about their struggle while fighting for this cause.
There they happened to meet Jenny, a worker of Survivor International and Shubhro, a free spirited man who were working for the welfare of the Jarawa tribe. And very soon they had formed a group to fight against the exploitation and the ill-treatment that the Jarawas were facing by the outsiders.
And the whole story is about their struggle while fighting for this cause.
Information:
As the book's foreword describes the ancestors of Jarawa tribe set their foot on Andaman island some ten thousand years before. But after many years their life style is still very much primitive and similar to stone-age and iron-age. They are completely depending upon nature for their food and all the needs. They are monolingual even now.
During British Colonialism, the intrusion of civilization was started in Andaman and Nicobar island. And from then the infliction our own semi-polluted culture has been started on Jarawa tribes in the name of bring them back to main stream. Although Supreme Court of India ordered on 2002 to close Jarawa reserve for outsiders and restrict for any kind of communication with Jarawa people, the constant exploitation, relocation and sexual abuse is still going on. And Jarawa tribe are still the victim of human safari.
As I'm writing this article on 30th, June 2017 I don't have much idea how much things has been changed from 2002. But according to Survival International organisation the news are not that much inspiring either. To read various articles on Jarawa tribe and the constant threats to their people, follow this link.
As Jarawa people are monolingual it's very difficult to understand them. But one of the JNU(Jawaharlal Neheru University) student Dr. Pramod Kumar had completed his PhD thesis on Jarawa tribe's language or communication medium. There are few articles which are available by online media on Dr. Pramod Kumar's effort : Openthemagazine & Times of India.
Read Dr. Pramod Kumar's complete thesis : "Descriptive and typological study of Jarawa"
And there is an interesting fact that I've learnt through this book about the Jarawa community : There are no concept of self-possession among Jarawa people. So whatever they use to collect either food or anything else for their basic needs, it must be shared in between all of them.
There are few other old tribes that I came across for the first time through this books are : Bo, The Great Andamanese, Kol, Korwa, Aboriginal from Australia etc. I may someday collect few other books about these old tribal people or their indigenous culture or their way of leaving in their homeland.
May be we should stop intruding in their own territories or forcing them to be a part of our own culture. If we won't take these actions right now, we'll wipe out many people, languages and cultures from this earth very soon. And without any doubts we should always remember - 'Diversity is our strength'.
