As the video of two Kuki women being paraded naked in Manipur went viral, Adivasi communities across the country have risen in rage and appealed to India’s first tribal President Droupadi Murmu to intervene and save the interests of indigenous communities. All India First Nations Writers’ Conference, an organisation of Adivasi writers from across the country, in a memorandum submitted to the President has put down its angst and referred to the Manipur incident as an attack by the people who consider themselves ‘civilised’ against those perceived as 'uncivilsed'.