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India aims to unlock value of its far-flung islands

Published Sun, Jul 26, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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JIRKATANG, India

BOLLYWOOD music blares from a line of food stalls serving tourists outside the entrance to a thickly forested tribal reserve on India's far-flung Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Beyond the barrier patrolled by police, a few hundreds members of the Jarawa tribe hunt the lush rainforest for turtles and pigs and shoot fish with bows and arrows, largely unseen and untouched by the outside world.

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