ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 5月10日 02時21分

At 82, the #anthropologist T. N. Pandit passes his days in the gentle occupations of old age: poetry, a Buddhist study circle, a daily walk in the park. Somewhere in a drawer, though, there are photographs that tell the stories of his adventures earlier in life. Back in the 1960s, T.N. was entrusted with the future of a few tiny groups believed to have migrated from Africa to India’s Andaman Islands around 50,000 years ago. It took him and his colleagues more than 2 decades to persuade the tribes known as the Jarawa and Sentinelese to lay down their bows and arrows and mingle peacefully with the Indian settlers who surrounded them. But now, when he looks back on his life’s great achievement, he does so with an unmistakable sadness. “The negative impact of close contact is inescapable, but it is sad,” he told @ニューヨーク・タイムズ. “What an amazing community, but it has been diluted in its outlook, its self-confidence, its sense of purpose, its sense of survival. Now they take it easy. They beg for things.” He added, “In the course of time, these communities will disappear. Their cultures will be lost.” @poraschaudhary took this portrait of T.N. at his home in New Delhi. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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