Wonderfully written, as always..I was expecting this though... article has a beautiful flow, I liked it. Yes, I need to admit that Jared Diamond 's Guns, Germs and Steel did come up!
I've known about the archeoologio since the first ever episode in Doordarshan in a program called 'Surabhi'. Renuka Shane was a co-host.
It was wonderfully shot, and at the end of it all, both of them had the same somber, meloncholic tone, asking themselves - did we do it the right way? I've also read about a lady who first made contact with one tribe; she would float Coconut in water, learning that that was one action which the indigenous people somehow seemed to like...the story carried in the newspaper mentioned that she was the first human from our era to do this... decades have passed ..all the information camr to us in Newspapers, my grandfather would neatly cutout the article and file them - this was when I was in high school..
.it was a habit to check what he had cut out, even if he didn't like it. But once he sensed the curiosity in me, would discuss these issues on weekends - papers carried such articles in their Sunday special.
The incident you have mentioned, about the Tsunami, I did read the day it was published. While i pondered over it, i was in a time machine which took me back the days when we devoured Indrajal Comics... Phantom.
all the adages, in single sentences..Drums beat communication, what happens when Phantom walks, i can't recollect it now, but as chidren they were quoted when we played ! one news paper had a daily running clip, my brother was reading it in an animated way. My grandfather who was close by remarked, ' Are you aware, in all languages, a proverb is a sentence, and behind it is earthly wisdom and a STORY...isn't it amazing???
Phantom was not Andamanese... but the plight of the indigenous people across the world is the same. As kids reading these comics, we were so sensitive, but as we grow up, where does it all disappear???
This article brought back from memory, a speech I had the privilege to host at BMSri Prathishtana. GN Devy had tears in his eyes when he told how it affected him when they watched or got to know about the demise of the last woman who spoke that language. I have heared his speeches on YouTube, in each one of them, I see that man carrying a burden of pain, and may be even guilt, as you have explained. His book Mahabharata explains how the narrator Vyasa mentions about the Naimisharanya conclave of Rishis, where a group of bards, lead by SukaMuni narrate the story...At one point, he stops, and says, i know the story only till now, next lines , 'he knows'...a tribal. GN Devy, identified himself as a tribal!!! It is fascinating...
...Have you heard the speech Australian President gave to the parliament, apologising to the real. owners of the lands? Almost every one present teared up! I must look for the link!
In the US, we have read novels , watched movies...their plight explored with blinkers on our eyes.. again few are against affirmative actions, and they have to fight for it..Story repeats, addiction, sexual exploitation..
..When I was reading ' Mother Mary Comes to me ' Arundhati Roys were on my mind, at her best, sublime poetic prose about Jharkhand, Naxalitess, and state sponsered Salwa Judum...
..now we are hearing about all the word being started and ended, all because of the rare earth metals!!!
Where are we headed? Or, should we ask ourselves, was this the story of mankind from the very beginning? Reading thru several books on migration, and Ancient DNA Analysis, the impact they have had on the gene mutations causing rare disorders, I have pondered over this many times....
..And RSS just calls them Vanawasis..just so that doing so, helps build a wrong narrative of our of India story, I stop here, as I have come to the page you have shared first in this article, list of names renamed as sanskrit dweeps!
If Ravana is a tragic hero, was that a story of the last battle for survivors, fighting for their lands, to save themselves from the conqueror's from mainlands? Who knows for certain? This version of the story is only there in the regions where the land flora and fauna could have been similar in the south of India, some parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka....strip all the layers, at the very bottom, I see only this..A Tragic Ravana portrayed by Nagachandra!!!
It is worth pondering over such issues from time to time, even though we can save ourselves that we are all victims of the times we are born into!
Enough of my rant. I stop here.
This is a deluge of memories, triggered by this poignant article, thanks for writing.
I've ruminated about aboriginals, and also other tribes all across India..Who knows? If Sri Lanka was indeed the biggest island in the grip of Islads including Andamans and Nicobars, Ramyana could have been the story of wiping out of an entire population of aboriginals ! Imagination can take you places!
There is cannibalism, fear of people from main lands, destruction - everything that corresponds to an Invation theory .. Andaman, Sri Lanka, Australia.
Now, I'm curious to check Ancient DNA analysis done so far on the people of Sri Lanka. There is Homo Denisovan blood , and the skull looks different! I've not touched Reich for ages, download yesterday!
Wonderfully written, as always..I was expecting this though... article has a beautiful flow, I liked it. Yes, I need to admit that Jared Diamond 's Guns, Germs and Steel did come up!
I've known about the archeoologio since the first ever episode in Doordarshan in a program called 'Surabhi'. Renuka Shane was a co-host.
It was wonderfully shot, and at the end of it all, both of them had the same somber, meloncholic tone, asking themselves - did we do it the right way? I've also read about a lady who first made contact with one tribe; she would float Coconut in water, learning that that was one action which the indigenous people somehow seemed to like...the story carried in the newspaper mentioned that she was the first human from our era to do this... decades have passed ..all the information camr to us in Newspapers, my grandfather would neatly cutout the article and file them - this was when I was in high school..
.it was a habit to check what he had cut out, even if he didn't like it. But once he sensed the curiosity in me, would discuss these issues on weekends - papers carried such articles in their Sunday special.
The incident you have mentioned, about the Tsunami, I did read the day it was published. While i pondered over it, i was in a time machine which took me back the days when we devoured Indrajal Comics... Phantom.
all the adages, in single sentences..Drums beat communication, what happens when Phantom walks, i can't recollect it now, but as chidren they were quoted when we played ! one news paper had a daily running clip, my brother was reading it in an animated way. My grandfather who was close by remarked, ' Are you aware, in all languages, a proverb is a sentence, and behind it is earthly wisdom and a STORY...isn't it amazing???
Phantom was not Andamanese... but the plight of the indigenous people across the world is the same. As kids reading these comics, we were so sensitive, but as we grow up, where does it all disappear???
This article brought back from memory, a speech I had the privilege to host at BMSri Prathishtana. GN Devy had tears in his eyes when he told how it affected him when they watched or got to know about the demise of the last woman who spoke that language. I have heared his speeches on YouTube, in each one of them, I see that man carrying a burden of pain, and may be even guilt, as you have explained. His book Mahabharata explains how the narrator Vyasa mentions about the Naimisharanya conclave of Rishis, where a group of bards, lead by SukaMuni narrate the story...At one point, he stops, and says, i know the story only till now, next lines , 'he knows'...a tribal. GN Devy, identified himself as a tribal!!! It is fascinating...
...Have you heard the speech Australian President gave to the parliament, apologising to the real. owners of the lands? Almost every one present teared up! I must look for the link!
In the US, we have read novels , watched movies...their plight explored with blinkers on our eyes.. again few are against affirmative actions, and they have to fight for it..Story repeats, addiction, sexual exploitation..
..When I was reading ' Mother Mary Comes to me ' Arundhati Roys were on my mind, at her best, sublime poetic prose about Jharkhand, Naxalitess, and state sponsered Salwa Judum...
..now we are hearing about all the word being started and ended, all because of the rare earth metals!!!
Where are we headed? Or, should we ask ourselves, was this the story of mankind from the very beginning? Reading thru several books on migration, and Ancient DNA Analysis, the impact they have had on the gene mutations causing rare disorders, I have pondered over this many times....
..And RSS just calls them Vanawasis..just so that doing so, helps build a wrong narrative of our of India story, I stop here, as I have come to the page you have shared first in this article, list of names renamed as sanskrit dweeps!
If Ravana is a tragic hero, was that a story of the last battle for survivors, fighting for their lands, to save themselves from the conqueror's from mainlands? Who knows for certain? This version of the story is only there in the regions where the land flora and fauna could have been similar in the south of India, some parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka....strip all the layers, at the very bottom, I see only this..A Tragic Ravana portrayed by Nagachandra!!!
It is worth pondering over such issues from time to time, even though we can save ourselves that we are all victims of the times we are born into!
Enough of my rant. I stop here.
This is a deluge of memories, triggered by this poignant article, thanks for writing.
Aruna
Here it is population history..
Our Vanara Sainya?
Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes - ScienceDirect https://share.google/UxWBpj1KWvjprjfWK
I've ruminated about aboriginals, and also other tribes all across India..Who knows? If Sri Lanka was indeed the biggest island in the grip of Islads including Andamans and Nicobars, Ramyana could have been the story of wiping out of an entire population of aboriginals ! Imagination can take you places!
There is cannibalism, fear of people from main lands, destruction - everything that corresponds to an Invation theory .. Andaman, Sri Lanka, Australia.
Now, I'm curious to check Ancient DNA analysis done so far on the people of Sri Lanka. There is Homo Denisovan blood , and the skull looks different! I've not touched Reich for ages, download yesterday!