Yanadi
New Ventures for the Yanadi
The government of India, a research foundation, and a volunteer organization have teamed up to help an impoverished Yanadi community begin an eco-friendly, low-input crab farming operation. According to a news report in The Hindu on Friday, the new project, fostered by the cooperating agencies, is located in the village of Sorlagondi, near Nagayalanka, in […]
Rat Control and the Yanadi
A food staple of the Yanadi a century ago—rats—has recently become a source of cash income for them, according to a report in a major Indian daily newspaper last week. Changes such as this in the cultures of small, traditional, peaceful societies can be fascinating. Edgar Thurston, writing the standard descriptive work about the indigenous […]
Yanadi Poverty in Andhra Pradesh Blamed on Official Negligence
At a public meeting last Wednesday in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh, state legislators alleged that the Yanadi suffer from abject poverty due, in part, to the negligence of government officials. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), the lower house of the state legislature, and members of the Legislative Council, the upper house, criticized […]
Corruption in Constructing Yanadi Housing
A representative of the Nellore District of the Yanadis Welfare Association charged last week that officials cheated the government when they started building some houses for Yanadi families. These alleged irregularities occurred in Allur Mandal, a village in the Nellore District of India’s Andhra Pradesh state. The Yanadi advocate, T. Venkateswarlu, told the press that […]
Traditional Knowledge of the Yanadi Should Be Protected
A new study by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) singles out the Yanadi as an example of an indigenous society with traditional knowledge that needs to be preserved. The IIED released its work on the Yanadi last week, along with studies on other traditional societies in India, Peru, Panama, China, and Kenya. […]
PRP Rallies for Andhra Pradesh Campaign
With the Andhra Pradesh state elections scheduled for mid-April, the Praja Rajyam Party, headed by Indian film star Chiranjeevi, is gearing up for the final days of the campaign. His Yanadi supporter, the outspoken Tupakula Munemma, is still a prominent figure in the party. A story on the party’s website last week described a rally […]
Yanadi Woman Achieves Star Billing
Tupakula Munemma, the Yanadi woman who garnered attention in the Indian press over a month ago when she made a rousing speech at a political convention, is still in the news. At a major convention of the Praja Rajyam Party in Vijayawada, a large city in Andhra Pradesh which is the headquarters of the new […]
Yanadi Woman Mesmerizes a Political Convention
A slight, unpretentious, 30-year old Yanadi woman gave a very effective speech at a political convention near Hyderabad last week and made an enormous impression. She will probably be nominated to be a candidate in upcoming state elections from the new political party that organized the meeting. Tupakula Munemma, a wage laborer from the village […]
Indian Politicians Make Promises for Yanadi Votes
According to news stories in recent weeks, the global food crisis, which has become particularly acute in many developing countries, is receiving attention from officials around the world. The skyrocketing cost of rice has fostered food riots—people are finding it nearly impossible to buy enough to eat. So politicians seem to be paying attention. A […]
Yanadis Gain Lands—To Their Dismay
Eighty three Yanadi families in a village of Kadapa District, south central Andra Pradesh, are unhappy that they are getting some free land. According to a report in the Indian paper The Statesman, the families in Channarayana Samundram, about 75 km from the city of Kadapa, are going to be receiving about three acres each. […]
