Dr Ratan Chandra Kar earned the Jarawa tribe’s trust and helped them survive a deadly measles outbreak, changing their future ...

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 ...

Ray argues that Jarawas should be brought into the mainstream at the earliest to ensure their survival against the “adverse effects of unregulated contacts with the mainstream.’’ ...

India's Supreme Court orders the reopening to traffic of a controversial road that passes through a tribal reserve in the Andamans archipelago.

The Jarawas must be allowed to make their own decisions about their future, in their own time. The Andaman Trunk road slices right through the lifestyle of the Jarawas.

Oct. 16: Ten years, 125 more heads. Hardly anything to write home about in these times of billion-plus populations, but anthropologists aren’t complaining. Not when the last headcount showed 240 and ...

Jarawas also sometimes get into the boat along with you to go to Baratang.Once, when a couple of my friends spent the night at the forest guest house at Baratang, the guard told them the previous ...

The editorial “What future for Jarawas?” (June 21) on the inclusion of the Jarawa tribe in the itinerary of some tour operators was hard-hitting and timely. It is rightly critical of the ...

India may lose the tag of having world’s most primitive nomadic --- Jarawa of Andaman – with the government deciding to reverse its 2004 policy of preserving their uniqueness.

Jirkatang police have had a love-hate relationship with the Jarawas. In 1997, a year after the tribe made its first-ever contact with government authorities, they stormed the Jirkatang police ...