How come this definition of MAN applies to your comment but then mean something different when Hari uses the term? One should not be making moral judgment of others when we ourselves are making sexist remarks.

@ Hari

Your article on this issue is very thought provoking.

Human beings have been encroaching or migrating as I would like to put it for thousands of years (we would not be in India if our forefathers did not migrate from Africa). This includes the Boa Sr people who migrated to the Andaman and Nicobar islands. I am sure this threatened or created the extinction of species in the islands just as migration of humans now are causing the extinction of their language. This is not a complicated statement.

Good luck to you too and I hope you will visit again.

No.1: [Human “encroachment” is part of human nature.] This contention doesn’t substantiate man’s transgression vis-à-vis the fellow species/ beings.

No.2: I’m sure you haven’t written this post barely for the sake of argument. Hence, being perennially confrontational doesn’t do any good for your image, my friend, as it would end up repelling your readers from your very blog instead of easing out your disquiet about winning more readers/ traffic for your blog.

No.3: You couldn’t decipher the simple connotation in my statement – “IT’S TIME TO BE A ‘MAN’…!!!”, whereby I meant a ‘sensitive human being’ and not a ‘male’.

No.4: Indians morally follow the fundamental etiquette of addressing someone decent either by his first name or with the prefix ‘Mr.’ before the surname, invariably. Hence, it’s advisable to desist from committing such a gaffe as you have ended up doing by addressing me as – “@ Vashishtha”.

MORAL: Running a blog open for public is not a cakewalk without being prepared for constructive criticism as you’re in for mixed reactions to your expressions. Hence, always be composed and magnanimus!

Good luck to you! Cheers!!! :)

Human “encroachment” is part of human nature. Encroachment began the instant human beings learned to walk. I can argue that the Boa Sr people themselves “encroached” on the island habitat.

My article clearly states that I support the conservation process but at the same time I want to point out other related issues which is my prerogative whether I am a man or not :)

Here, in most cases (including the Tiger, Dolphin etc.); as Tarun has also pointed out in his comment about the demise of ‘Boa Sr’, the last surviving speaker of the ‘Bo’ language in my domicile, Port Blair last week; the hapless extinctions have occured largely due to gluttonous human encroachments into their habitats. So, how can we, ethically, pass the buck…?

Hence, I vehemently reckon that the onus is on us humans to try and rectify the imbalance, thereby doing justice to our very own survival, at length.
IT’S TIME TO BE A ‘MAN’…!!!

Plz, care to check this out for more on this…
A TRIBE & LANGUAGE GO EXTINCT IN ANDAMAN

One person hanged on killing of a animal, all this poaching will reduce instantly .. Sometimes we have to take a STRONG step which our govt. is missing and will miss always and everytime..

Now what can I say, I have too raised this point albeit not mentioning food varieties, but the point you raise is correct. We are losing many things why shouldn’t we focus on the ecology on a whole and not the one. Few days ago last speaker of Bo language and the last member of a 65000 years old tribe died at Andaman. Extinction is a part of nature, but controlling is the only thing which is in our hands.