The Wild Heart of India
Nature and Conservation in the City, the Country, and the Wild
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9780199494743
Publication date:
28/05/2019
Hardback
508 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 795.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199494743
Publication date:
28/05/2019
Hardback
508 pages
216.0x140.0mm
T.R. Shankar Raman
Through this collection of essays, biologist Shankar Raman attempts to blur, if not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too.
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T.R. Shankar Raman
Description
Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses—from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha—but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollute rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks—impelling a motivation to care, and to conserve nature.
Through this collection of essays, Shankar Raman attempts to blur, if not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too.
About the Author
T.R. Shankar Raman is a writer turned wildlife scientist turned writer, living in the Anamalai Hills in southern India. He works with the Nature Conservation Foundation.
T.R. Shankar Raman
Table of contents
FIELD DAYS: AN ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
Six Seasons in the City
Night Life in Chennai
Lone Palm Tree, Sir!
The Tropicbirds of Memory
Fording the Flood
Answering the Call of the Hoolock Gibbon
Bamboo Bonfires and Biodiversity
In Clouded Leopard Country
The Dance of the Bamboos
Bird by Bird in the Rainforest
Abode of Rainforest Rarities
Shadowing Civets
Kalakad: Three Years in the Rainforest
Feathered Foresters
Namdapha: Deep Forest
CONSERVATION: A WORLD OF WOUNDS
The Beleaguered Blackbuck
A Bounty of Deer
Hornbills: Giants Among Forest Birds
A Life of Courage and Conviction
Cavities, Caves, and a Caveat
Life in the Garbage Heap
Death on the Highway
Natural Engineering: India’s Green Infrastructure
The Long Road to Growth
Watering Down Forest Protection
Protecting the Wildlife Protection Act
Living with Leopards in Countryside and City
The Culling Fields
Bamboozled by Land-Use Policy: Jhum and Oil Palm in Mizoram
The March of the Triffids
How Green is Your Tea?
Rhythms of Renewal
Conserving a Connected World
Integrating Ecology and Economy
The Health of Nations: The Other Invisible Hand
REFLECTIONS: OUR PLACE IN NATURE
The Wild Heart of India
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Who Gives a Fig?
Welcome Back, Warblers
Musician of the Monsoon
The Caricature Monkey
Turning the Turtle
The Deaths of Osama
An Apology to the Iyerpadi Gentleman
An Enduring Relevance
River Reverie
Behind the Onstreaming
Earth-Scar Evening
The Butchery of the Banyans
Of Tamarinds and Tolerance
Forest of Aliens
The Tall Tree
The Pigeon’s Passengers
The Mistletoe Bird
The Walk that Spun the World
Aesthetics in the Desert
Twinges of Longing, Passing Shadows
Being with Dolphins
Sentience for Conservation
T.R. Shankar Raman
T.R. Shankar Raman
Description
Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses—from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha—but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollute rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks—impelling a motivation to care, and to conserve nature.
Through this collection of essays, Shankar Raman attempts to blur, if not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too.
About the Author
T.R. Shankar Raman is a writer turned wildlife scientist turned writer, living in the Anamalai Hills in southern India. He works with the Nature Conservation Foundation.
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FIELD DAYS: AN ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
Six Seasons in the City
Night Life in Chennai
Lone Palm Tree, Sir!
The Tropicbirds of Memory
Fording the Flood
Answering the Call of the Hoolock Gibbon
Bamboo Bonfires and Biodiversity
In Clouded Leopard Country
The Dance of the Bamboos
Bird by Bird in the Rainforest
Abode of Rainforest Rarities
Shadowing Civets
Kalakad: Three Years in the Rainforest
Feathered Foresters
Namdapha: Deep Forest
CONSERVATION: A WORLD OF WOUNDS
The Beleaguered Blackbuck
A Bounty of Deer
Hornbills: Giants Among Forest Birds
A Life of Courage and Conviction
Cavities, Caves, and a Caveat
Life in the Garbage Heap
Death on the Highway
Natural Engineering: India’s Green Infrastructure
The Long Road to Growth
Watering Down Forest Protection
Protecting the Wildlife Protection Act
Living with Leopards in Countryside and City
The Culling Fields
Bamboozled by Land-Use Policy: Jhum and Oil Palm in Mizoram
The March of the Triffids
How Green is Your Tea?
Rhythms of Renewal
Conserving a Connected World
Integrating Ecology and Economy
The Health of Nations: The Other Invisible Hand
REFLECTIONS: OUR PLACE IN NATURE
The Wild Heart of India
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Who Gives a Fig?
Welcome Back, Warblers
Musician of the Monsoon
The Caricature Monkey
Turning the Turtle
The Deaths of Osama
An Apology to the Iyerpadi Gentleman
An Enduring Relevance
River Reverie
Behind the Onstreaming
Earth-Scar Evening
The Butchery of the Banyans
Of Tamarinds and Tolerance
Forest of Aliens
The Tall Tree
The Pigeon’s Passengers
The Mistletoe Bird
The Walk that Spun the World
Aesthetics in the Desert
Twinges of Longing, Passing Shadows
Being with Dolphins
Sentience for Conservation
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