The reporter was clearly impressed with some aspects of a small Yanadi crab-fishing community located along the banks of an irrigation channel in coastal Andhra Pradesh. The community, consisting of just 13 houses, is near Vadapalem hamlet in the Machilipatnam Mandal of Krishna District. In a news report published by… Continue reading…
The reporter was clearly impressed with some aspects of a small Yanadi crab-fishing community located along the banks of an irrigation channel in coastal Andhra Pradesh. The community, consisting of just 13 houses, is near Vadapalem hamlet in the Machilipatnam Mandal of Krishna District. In a news report published by… Continue reading…
Videos and photos were shared on WhatsApp and other social media last week showing the principal of a tribal school in the city of Nellore brutally beating Yanadi students. A number of news outlets in India quickly reported the story, the most complete of which were in The News Minute… Continue reading…
For the Yanadi, gaining full titles to lands they have cultivated in Andhra Pradesh for many years can be a breakthrough event. But while they have suffered injustices from higher caste Indians for generations, they have also been attaining their rights, such as their land titles, ever so slowly, according… Continue reading…
Fifteen Yanadi workers were killed by an explosion at an illegal fireworks manufacturing facility in a Nellore suburb on December 31, 2016, exposing to the public the deplorable working conditions that they endure. The story was widely reported in the Indian press in early January 2017. A number of people… Continue reading…
Fifteen Yanadi workers were killed by an explosion at an illegal fireworks manufacturing facility in a Nellore suburb on December 31, 2016, exposing to the public the deplorable working conditions that they endure. The story was widely reported in the Indian press in early January 2017. A number of people… Continue reading…
Nearly 80 Yanadi are participating in a program of monitoring the safety of Olive Ridley turtle eggs until they hatch and the babies can safely enter the sea. The fishing people living on the coast of Andhra Pradesh were singled out last Thursday by a major Indian newspaper for protecting… Continue reading…
News sources in India reported last week that the famous actor who goes by the stage name Chiranjeevi has once again taken an interest in the Yanadi. When he temporarily gave up his acting and entered politics ten years ago, his political career became mixed in with the relatively obscure… Continue reading…
An investigation of a rape and murder in Andhra Pradesh became nasty for the Yanadi recently when the police rounded up and then roughed up some villagers. But unlike the tacit avoidance of conflict with authority figures that has characterized them in the past, these Yanadi protested to higher authorities…. Continue reading…
The peaceful societies of India, like many people, struggle with the consumption of alcohol since it can promote social instability and violence along with providing a lot of pleasure. Of course patterns of alcohol usage vary among the peaceful societies of just that one country, from the Kadar men of… Continue reading…
