The People That Live On This Island Kill Anyone Who Tries To Come Ashore

North Sentinel Island is located in the Bay of Bengal off of the coast of India.  It is well away from landlocked earth, and while it is officially administered by India, no one has been able to make contact with the native inhabitants.  The island is one of the last remaining uncivilized areas of the earth, existing in a rare state of conceded sovereignty.

An indigenous tribe has lived on North Sentinel Island with extremely limited contact with outsiders.   Anyone who has attempted to explore the island has been attacked or outright killed.  North Sentinel  is so dangerous for outsiders that India’s government has established a three-mile exclusion zone in an effort to prevent more violence.

Sentinelese wait with javelins as they see outsiders approaching

On January 26, 2006, two fishermen were killed by Sentinelese when their boat drifted near the island.  The bodies were tossed into shallow graves.  An Indian coastguard helicopter attempted to retrieve the fishermen’s bodies, but was prevented from landing when it was greeted with a volley of arrows from the tribesmen.

Taken from the helicopter as islander attempts to shoot it down with bow and arrow

On August 2, 1981, the ship Primrose grounded on the North Sentinel Island reef.  Within a short time, shipmates on the immobile vessel noticed that men on the shore were carrying spears and arrows and building boats on the beach.  The captain radioed for a drop of weapons so that the ship could defend itself, but did not receive them.  Luckily, heavy seas kept the islanders away long enough for the crew to be rescued by helicopter.

The island is the size of Manhattan

After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the Indian government sent a helicopter to check on the inhabitants on the island.  While other nearby islands were heavily affected, the Sentinelese appeared to have been unharmed.  The helicopter observed several clansmen shooting arrows and throwing stones at the hovering aircraft with the apparent intent of repelling it.

 Believed to number anywhere from 50 to 400, the Sentinelese have lived in isolation on the island for 60,000 years.

The deep tree canopy makes it difficult to observe the Sentinelese from the air, but based on limited observational data it is assumed that they are hunter-gatherers; agriculture does not appear to be known to them.

They have managed to create metal-tipped arrows by carving out pieces from the hulls of wrecked shops.  If not for this practice, the Sentinelese would be described as Stone Age people.

A shipwreck resulting from a clash with the clanspeople can be seen from Google Maps

The Sentinelese violence is almost certainly simply related to self-preservation, and they have been successful while other indigenous tribes have been wiped out.  For now, the Indian government seems content to allow the native people to preserve their isolation, at least partially for fear that bacterial contamination may cause their extinction.  So the people of North Sentinel Island continue to live in isolation, unaware and uncaring of the evolution of the world around them, on a tiny island in the great wide ocean.

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Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan

Afghanistan, presently, is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman. 85 percent of the country’s women have no formal education, life expectancy is a low 51, and violence against women in the country is on the rise, having peaked in 2013 according to the Independent Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan (AIHRC).

Although in recent years, there have been significant developments improving the condition of women in the war-torn country — such as the 2009 Elimination of Violence against Women Act (EVAW), the country continues to face several challenges in terms of women’s rights and safety, including challenges pertaining to the implementation of EVAW. The UN in 2012 made 71 recommendations to improve the implementation of the law, but in a subsequent report found that only four of its proposals were had been implemented.

In fact, UN Women chief Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has described violence against women in Afghanistan as “pandemic” with 87.2 percent of women experiencing some form of physical, psychological, sexual, economic or social violence.

However, Afghanistan was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan; one where female students sat next to their male peers, where girls scouts worked along with boy scouts, where, in parks and playgrounds, buses and record stores, hospitals and schools, women were seen in equal numbers as men.

These collection of images offer a rare insight into Afghanistan’s past.

(Phonograph record store in Kabul. Image credit: Facebook page: Afghanistan Is Beautiful).

(Women in the Faculty of Medicine, Kabul University. Image credit: “Afghanistan: Cockpit in High Asia, 1966,” by Peter King)

(Afghan school girls. Image credit: Dr. William Podlich)

(Students at the Higher Teachers College of Kabul. Image credit: Dr. William Podlich )

(A vaccine research center attached to a Kabul hospital in the 1960s. Image credit: Facebook page: Afghanistan Is Beautiful).

(Afghan girl scouts pictured in the 1950s or 60s. Image credit: Facebook page: Afghanistan Is Beautiful).

(A school playground. Image credit: Dr William Podlich)

(Student nurses at Maternity Hospital, Kabul. Image credit: Facebook page: Afghanistan Is Beautiful).

(Tourists at a park in Kabul. Image credit: Dr William Podlich)

(Biology class during the late 1950s or early 1960s. Kabul Uni. Image credit: Wikipedia)

(Image credit: Dr William Podlich)

(Men and women entering a public transport bus in the 1950s. Image credit: Wikipedia)

(Two Afghan medicine students listening to their professor (at right) at the Faculty of Medicine, Kabul. Image credit: AFP/Getty)

(Kabul Medical University late 1970’s. Image credit: Facebook page: Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan)

(Afghan ladies at Kabul Airport. Image credit: Facebook page: Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan)

(Afghan women singers. Image credit: Facebook page: Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan)

(Image credit: Facebook page: Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan)

(Kabul University Students — a mix of men and women — at graduation in the 1960s. Image credit: Facebook page: Once Upon A Time In Afghanistan)

(Afghan women in the 1960s. Image credit: Facebook page: Afghanistan Is Beautiful).

Source – The Citizen

EGO-- FOUNTAINHEAD OF UNHAPPINESS -- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Ship Management companies, Ship captains , HRD management pundits and the common man will benefit from this piece.

Placing your ego on the back burner is the first step in realizing one's potential, having a happy family life and living in harmony with society.

It is a wise thing to drop your ego once you get married. What ego calls love is actually possessiveness that can turn into hate within a second. Human love is limited because ego and selfishness is contained in it

Emily Post , the etiquette czarina requires a genteel lady to crook her little finger while holding the tea cup— out of sheer “ consideration for other people ” — what nonsense !

The ego thrives on others and lives on attention . Human ego demands personal recognition and wastes energy in resentment if it does not get enough. The underlying emotion for the ego is fear, the fear of being a nobody. 

There is always a sense of insecurity around the ego even if on the outside it appears confident , perfumed and powdered. Ego strengthens itself by diminishing others—the uncultured females who had no clue of how the little finger must be crooked. 

Ego is insanity of the human mind. Unhappiness is an ego created mental cum emotional disease. The chatter of the ego continuously disrupts the natural state of well being. Stress is from within the mind , not by external threat. Ego creates suffering without recognising it.

Many people carry large amount of unnecessary baggage, both mental and emotional through out their lives. They hang on to the old emotion to strengthen their identity.

Let me go beyond insignificant Emily Post , to leaders and Managers of Companies.

I can already see lot of my colleagues smiling wryly.

It’s hard to get into the boardrooms and MD offices of some organizations because the egos of the leaders take up way too much space. Only bootlickers and hand kissers are allowed into their inner sanctum. They recruit yes-men instead of capable men.

Their own agenda is always ahead of the business agenda. They would disagree with someone’s point just because the is the one who said it. Their ego makes them take everything personally. They mistake a short memory for a clear conscience and are miserabe within.

They are unable to listen to another person's view without feeling threatened. They leave debris and destruction wherever they go. They are very eager to see their picture or name on the cover of a business periodical .

Their Indifference arises due to ego. Their ego cannot distinguish between a situation and their interpretation and reaction to that situation. Cooperation is alien to ego except when there is a secondary motive. The ego becomes the grit in the system that gets in the way of authentic meaningful communication. 

Their self-talk is the mouthpiece of ego, Their inflated, overbearing egos create rules for rules’ sake. They complicate procedures , squash good ideas and keep good people down. 

Their ego makes them unwilling to admit that they know zilch about a subject in a meeting—the equivalent of the ear trying to tell what it saw and tasted and smelt, in a bulldozing manner. They brood endlessly on their petty grievances, never held before them any vision that might have lifted them out of themselves. They substitute their thinking capabilities with their loud cynical talking capabilities.

Compulsive liars are driven by egos feelings of insufficiency.. Ego will force them to make life difficult for others—for they feel the need to put people in their place or get into one-upmanship games.

“ If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -- Abraham Lincoln.

Such wretched people would give only conditional love to a small child or a kitten.

Enough on these wretched self righteous leaders, infatuated with their own brilliance , self delusions of grandeur and hidden agendas.

Let us move on.

Road rage has become very common these days. The offence will be small but our reaction would be ridiculous—here it is the power of his car’s engine.. 

Ego tries to enlarge and strengthen by forming gangs and posses. Here the ego has simply shifted from the personal to the collective.

An immature leader douses the spark of creativity, rather than fan it, for the bottom line is always about him.

Your ego can prevent you from being an effective and truly great leader. Ego, popularly conceived as an over-inflated sense of self-importance, is a major stumbling block to effective leadership. 

Good leaders surround themselves with talented, outspoken individuals, not yes- men. Leadership is not an ego game!

Ego confuses opinions with facts . Every ego is a master of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Ego likes to judge and be right. You have a problem if you allow your ego to supersede your common sense.

Ego drives us on to greatness, then thrashes us soundly when we let it get out of control. Ego is a demanding unforgiving parasite . To the ego the present moment NOW hardly exists and is always concerned with keeping the past alive. Ego looks at the present with jaundiced eyes of the past.

When people argue they will act as if they are fighting for survival and there is a imminent need to win at all costs. Such is the self delusion caused by ego. The ego thrives on reactivity.

The ego burns up considerable amounts of energy. 

People with king sized egos , when they suddenly fall ill suddenly become nice and gentle and humble—for the hospital is a great leveler.. But alas, when they get better energy returns and so does the ego. Every ego is therefore schizophrenic – with split personality.

There is no ego in telling the waiter that there is a cockroach in your cold soup. To be free of ego all you need to do is to be aware of your thoughts and emotions as they happen. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. It is difficult to see one's own ego. 

You can be sure you are correct, but then you have no right to take away people’s dignity to prove yourself. Let people see your soft side. This will make you much more endearing. Done properly it will not be perceived as weakness . It will make you more approachable and believable.

Surround yourself with equally capable and strong-willed people. Give them permission to disagree with you , on a regular basis.

There is a fine line between pride and arrogance, that line is called EGO. The danger zone is when you start thinking that your accomplishments earn you the right to be condescending, obnoxious and abusive. Arrogance is having an attitude of superiority, delighting in your own significance and thriving on others feelings of inferiority.

The person with a king sized ego, will understand the whole of the planet,, but he will not understand what his own ego is doing to him. The left brain lobe is the home of his ego. It is the nature of ego to take and that of spirit to give. Since leadership is of spirit, the ego powered men can never be good leaders--they can never rise over the post of a mangy manager. It is the nature of the right brain lobe, to be accepting and free of judgements. Ego makes a donkey think that he is THE champion race horse.

Murderers in the death row have in the last few hours experienced the ego less state and the deep joy and peace that comes along with it.

Even Saddam Hussain agreed to wear the black hood on his head without protest before he was hanged , in front of several people —under normal circumstances he would have spat on the man who suggested it to him.

The PARADOX is that suffering caused by the ego eventually destroys the ego. When ego disappears , bliss enters.

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

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