Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by..- Robert Frost Prelude It was early summer during 1980. I was then in Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Environmental Sciences at New Delhi, pursuing my doctoral degree. Two national level events in the field of conservation and pollution were rousing public attention through wider reporting in the media. One was the contentious issue of establishing a hydro-electric power project across Kunthipuzha River in the pristine Silent Valley forests of Kerala. The other was about the proposed Mathura refinery in the Taj trapezium that was feared to cast doom for Taj Mahal, one of the medieval India’s wonders. As a researcher on environment and pollution, I naturally took inquisitive interest on these items and began collecting clippings of reports, editorials, topical essays, letter to editor on the subjects from the new...
All about Indian Wildlife- Fascinating narrative of India's wildlife's uniqueness and glory, trials and tribulations, persecution and perturbation, challenges and opportunities, successes and failures in their management realistically assessed by a professional forester and wild lifer with 35 years of field experience