Shorthand: Why North Sentinel Island is Forbidden

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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There is an island in the Bay of Bengal populated by indigenous hunter-gatherers, who live much like our ancestors did some 60,000 years ago. They’ve made it clear they want no contact with the outside world, and in the 50s, India made it illegal for anyone to go within five miles of its shoreline.

But a few years ago one man, who thought he was above that rule, snuck onto the island proclaiming to the local tribe that Jesus loved them. He has never been seen again.

Hannah and Suruthi explain the background to John Chau’s evangelical mission – and discuss the few people who have successfully managed to connect with this isolated group.

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0:43.2	Hello!
0:44.1	Hello and welcome to yet another episode of RayTanded Shorthand.
0:48.6	Yes, in this time it's an anthropological one.
0:51.7	It is and it's very exciting. It's one that I wanted to cover for a while actually and I thought,
0:56.0	you know, well, why the fuck not?
0:57.8	I think this particularly there is a running theme on Shorthand of things that people maybe misunderstood.
1:03.6	And I think this one particularly is misunderstood by many, many a person.
1:08.2	Absolutely, so let's get into it.
1:10.8	North Sentinel Island is one of, in my opinion, the most fascinating places on Earth.
1:16.5	It's a small island around 7 kilometres by 7 kilometres in size
1:20.8	that sits in the Bay of Bengal. It's actually one of the Andaman Islands, an archipelago that's a part of India.
1:27.3	But North Sentinel Island is unique, as it's forbidden to visit.
1:32.5	The Indian government made it illegal for anyone to get within three miles of the island.
1:37.5	And its inhabitants, the Sentinelese, are an indigenous tribe of hunter-gatherers,
1:42.8	living life in a not too dissimilar way to how our ancestors would have done some 60,000 years ago.
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