Konda Reddy -

Poverty is measurable: a high rate of chronic malnutrition, anemia among women, and a startling lack of access to primary health centers, often hours of walking away. Meanwhile, Naxalite-Maoist insurgencies have used the forest corridors as transit routes, bringing the Konda Reddy unwanted attention—caught between police suspicion and militant intimidation.

But the hill is shrinking.

To understand the Konda Reddy is to understand elevation. "Konda" means hill, and their identity is etched into the steep slopes and hidden plateaus of the Bison Hills. Unlike the plains-dwelling Reddis, the Konda Reddy have historically chosen isolation, living in penthas —small, scattered hamlets of circular bamboo huts with conical thatched roofs that blend seamlessly into the jungle canopy. konda reddy