For 60,000 years, the tribes of the Andaman Islands have lived undisturbed – but now their way of life is under threat ...

The Great Nicobar Project is a shipping and military development plan which threatens two isolated tribes – the Jarawa (pictured here in 2002) and the Shompen - Thierry Falise My journey to the ...

This week, The Diplomat’s Sanjay Kumar spoke with Lieutenant General Ajay Kumar Singh, lieutenant government of the Indian Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, about their ...

Members of the Jarawa tribe catching fish at low tide in 2002 Credit: Thierry Falise If you’ve heard of the Andaman Islands at all, it’s likely because of one tribe – the Sentinelese – and ...

Meanwhile, the 476-odd members of the nomadic Jarawa tribe, who live in a vast forest reserve between the south and middle Andamans, have been already moved and isolated to the farthest part of ...

Groups have also voiced concern about the Jarawa - a tribe that has some contact with the outside world, including a road that cuts through their territory that is used by some tourists for ...

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been a fortress for the Sentinelese and Jarawa tribes for over 60,000 years. Settled in the thick forests of the Sentinel Island, away from the bustling human ...