- Proceedings at the KSTRI meeting on 16 October - - Slave trade like behaviour of yerava people across estates - Dilution of identity across paniya and yerava by issuing common certificates - lack of basic demographic and distribution details - Threats to food practices and traditional diets which are all getting eroded - tough to follow culture by being a slave trader in another's estate - comparable to the Hasalaru in terms of being bonded to coffee estate, cultural erotion - managers of estates prevent community organisation and do not allow for educqtion of childtren and keep us "backward" - Primacy for girl child - with festivities for the birth of girl child - esp among panjari yerava - quite matrilineal - comparable to the Adiya of the Kerala - we call ourselves "ravalar" - dont know why we are yeraval or panchari yerava - big problem in terms of our own idenitty - its a crisis of why we are called one thing in the docum ents and we identify otherwise - a structural violence - tough to have diff schools - kerala model of being in one cqmpus right thoruhg the education - many incidences of cancer among young forest-based adivasi communities among the Yerava - need for resaerch on why there is cancer among the young peoples deaths - High rates of tobacco and alcohol - Structural violence by improving addiction-related behaviour - Very poor healthcare experience - we tried our best to help but lots of documentation missing for accessing various healthcare schemes and even basic housing schemes - many people living in plastic homes - Our people are dying young - loss of access to forest products - even mushrooms - also climate change diminishing access to materials in the forests - also related to use of chemicals by the nearby estates - complete lack of occupational safety - extensive sexual violence - Prof Somanna - retired professor in Gonikoppa - - Yesterday death