Sahyadrica

“The earth is shaking as the tree falls with a great thud.” – Boa Sr, Songs from the Great Andamanese 6,808,300,000 – The number of people living on this planet. 3,000,000,000 – The number of people living in poverty. Over thousand tribes exist on this planet, but no one knows how many tribal people live or how many die.  It is disheartening to hear of someone you know pass away, but it is different to hear of someone, who is the last person of a tribe, to pass. The difference lies not just in knowing that a person – whom you never met or thought of – passed away, but in the very thought that the person was the last one to die. Something that makes my mind twitch. Survival and other media reported the passing away of the last member of a tribe from Andaman Island  on January 26. “ Boa Sr , who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of ‘ Bo ’, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages ”, quoted the article Extinct: Andaman tribe’s exterminati...