The People Of Forest...

Tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

With the evolution of new India we are witnessing the extinction of Adivasi’s or a bad impact on them. When tsunami hit the islands many perished but none of Adivasi’s lost any possession. They had a way with the cattle who took them uphill before the waves struck. Formal education could not provide for any survival value or swift instinct. When there are people looking for research in India, they usually don’t go to the doctors, they visit remote areas and villages where an elderly woman may use some herbs and cure weakness and diseases divulgung some of the secrets. Later on investigating, the companies may find the herb useful and claim of the women may be correct. This is something called bio piracy. These people possess something that is indigenous knowledge-- the one which has been cultivated, carried and gained over centuries of lived experience and is of lower valence then the knowledge required at school.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that contrary to the new voices, instead of the Adivasi who have lived in forest since ages and timesunmemorable, people living in air conditioned offices of metropolitan India are responsible for the thinning of the forest. The idea appeared in 2008 when a petition was filed in supreme court by NGO and forest guards stating that human is not a part of nature. Both cannot coexist. It is very far from imagination to distinguish between Adivasi who had known something about living sensibly with the nature and the rest of us would do not neither will ever understand the importance of it.

But even the judges of supreme court , sometimes fail to consider this. There have been protests and rulings stating eviction of Adivasi’s from forest lands and FRA. Has the court contemplated the graveness of its implication? Where will these people live? What will these people do ? What justice is there in such inhuman behaviour? It betrays ignorance. Judges know that we live in a time where metropolitans stand at a place to answer for an imbalance ecology. It is among the wisest and the weakest that they have chosen to attack. This is the arrogance of India that a wounded civilization is at its last hope. It is clear that the freeing of the forest of its traditional inhabitants will expose their erstwhile habitats and it will be long before that we say—" What have we done?”