Around 10 years ago, I and my colleagues spent a few days as part of a study in a Chenchu tribe’s Penta (the Chenchu called their villages as Pentalu) in the Nallamala forest in Andhra Pradesh. Anywhere between 50 to 100 families lived in that small hamlet nestled deep in the middle of the forest. Collection of Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) such as honey, sarapappu, karakkaya, addaaku, nannari gaddalu, etc., and selling them was the tribe’s main occupation.