Division, 74, has finally found peace after the struggle of a lifetime. He proudly holds up the land title to a two-acre plot the Karnataka government has given him. Division — named after the sub-division office he was born next to, a naming convention common in the Hakki Pikki tribe to which he belongs — is among 114 people to have got land title deeds on August 12. He is one of the elders of the Hakki Pikki colony, located on the edge of the Bannerghatta National Park (BNP), about 36 km from Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The paper he holds came after over six decades of struggle of the Hakkipikki people, traditionally a semi-nomadic tribe of bird catchers and hunters, who settled down in this region sometime during the rule of Mysore Wadiyars, more than 100 years ago.
