The Threat to the Andamans' Jawara Tribe

Is the life of a primitive child on an isolated island in the Andaman Sea, in the words of the

British philosopher Thomas Hobbes, likely to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short? Or is it

idyllic and peaceful?

Bishnu Pada Ray, an Indian member of parliament representing the Andaman and Nicobar

Islands, is proposing that children aged six to 12 of the …