It’s late in the afternoon, and at the office of the Andaman Adim Janjati Vikas Samiti (AAJVS), villagers and Samiti members are recalling the time when people would not dare venture out after sundown ...

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Andaman authorities have halted tourist safaris to save members of an endangered tribe that has lived in the forests for tens of thousands of years. Activists say the ban is in best interests of the ...

In January 2012, journalist Gethin Chamberlain posted a shocking video on the Guardian's website. Shot from a tour bus in India's Andaman Islands, the video shows tourists taunting women with scraps ...

Road on Andaman in Jarawa heartland Survival Intl. A decision by India’s Supreme Court to reverse a previous ban on so-called "human safaris" by tourists in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will ...

Kar shifted to Port Blair in 2003, but continued his visits to the remote areas to provide medical care to the Jarawa tribe. In 2006, he became the deputy director (tribal and welfare) of the Andaman ...

Andaman Island hunter-gatherers believed to have killed child according to ritual custom, but alleged role of outsiders in death forces officials to intervene This file photo released by the ...

Newspapers and TV anchors are waxing indignant about a video showing the tribal Jarawas of the Andaman Islands dancing for tourists in exchange for food and trinkets. Many NGOs are demanding closure ...

Contrary to the authorial claim, this is not the first full-length book on the North Sentinel Island that has been published. It aspires to be one, but is not. The Last Island is about the Andamans, ...

Two French filmmakers have been booked on the charge of trespassing into the protected Jarawa tribal reserve in the Andaman islands and filming a documentary on the threatened aboriginal tribe. “We ...