Rishika Pardikar

3 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Rishika Pardikar |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy

Early in 2023, D. Ayyappan, Secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar State Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), wrote to Ajay Kumar Bhalla, the then-Home Secretary of the Union government, about the “problems being faced by the people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands”.

1 month ago | newslaundry.com | Rishika Pardikar

We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No computers to work. We just have a chair,” Barnabas said.

1 month ago | thenewsminute.com | Rishika Pardikar |Nandini Chandrashekar

We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No computers to work. We just have a chair,” Manju said. From a demand for a formal office to answers on a mega project that threatens to destroy their way of life, Manju is stonewalled and his visitors surveilled.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Rishika Pardikar |Vaishna Roy

On March 13, the Andaman and Nicobar Forest Department organised a first-of-its-kind “turtle festival” in Campbell Bay, Great Nicobar Island, according to the Andaman Chronicle. During the festival, 40 newly hatched giant leatherback turtles and 200 olive ridley turtles were reportedly released at B-Quarry beach with the participation of school students. These hatchlings came from hatcheries managed by the Forest Department as part of conservation efforts.

Jan 28, 2025 | msn.com | Rishika Pardikar |Amy Westervelt

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