Books

Book Excerpt: Falling in Love with the Natural World

A Python, an Anaconda, and the Dream of Starting a Snake Park in India

An Encounter with the Grey Ghost of Ladakh

To the Point: Wild Things and their Beaks, Teeth, Claws

Birding with a ‘Superstar’ Uncle

Listen! The Forest Has Something to Say

How to Behave While Birdwatching

Finding a ‘Star’ Among Frogs

An Illustrated Guide to the Daily Lives of Birds

Recommended Reads for Those in Love with our Planet

Midnight Miracle: Waiting for Mother Turtles by the Beach

The Nitty-gritty of Releasing a Leopard

The Stare of the Snake and the Gaze of the Gaur

Hidden Kingdom: Fantastic Plants and Where to Find Them

Jewels from the Intertidal

Art, Life, and Trees

A 101 to Moth Watching

A Purple Frog on her Heart

The Solitary and Secretive Tibetan Lynx

The Rediscovery of the Jerdon’s or Double-banded Courser

Birds, Beasts, and Other Adventures

The Case of the Missing Turtles

Growing Older, and Wiser, With a Cherry Tree

The Invasive Four

Admiring the Perfect Blade of Grass

Recollections of Sambelong

Along the Chambal

My Old Friend, the Pipal Pani Tiger

The Scientist Who Speaks to Elephants

The Woody Wonders of Arunachal Pradesh and How to Identify Them

The Making of Delhi’s First Bird Lists and Birdwatching Clubs

Celebrating the Sacred Trees of India

A Sister’s Recollections of Jim Corbett

Hit by the Climate Crisis, Fairy Tales Just Got Real

Look out, the Trash is Alive!

The Thar Desert: A Landscape of Loss

A Crocodile in the Matla River

The Song of the Iora

Woken Up by the Whistling Schoolboy

Garden Wonders and Roadside Marvels

Finding a Tranquilised Wild Tiger

Into the Wilds of Namdapha National Park

A History of Conservation: 50 Years of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972

The Arrival of the Citizen Scientist

The King’s Treasure, its Sinister Protector, and a Bottle of Milk

Through the Magic Portal, to a World of Marine Superheroes

Loving Birds in a Time of War

The Thirty-Year Long Battle to Save a Wetland in Calcutta

A Wild Life: Rauf Ali’s Forest Adventures

Kokkare Bellur: The Blessed Bird Village of Karnataka

The Teeming Wildlife of a Garbage Dump

The Fellowship of the Grove

The Owlet Who Craved the Sun

Ruskin Bond’s Search for Wilderness in Delhi

How a Group of Men Saved Elephants by Talking to Them

Behind the Revival of Panna’s Tigers

Breaking News! A Brown Cloud Descends on Mumbai

Myths, Folklore and the Blood Pheasant of Kanchenjunga

Najafgarh – Wetland or Wasteland?

Tracking the Untraceable Sundarbans Tiger

Bringing a Forest Back from the Brink

Of Sacred Streams and Groves

The Sundarbans Inheritance: Protecting a People’s Legacy

The Story Behind the ‘Hardship Allowance’ for Karnataka’s Frontline Forest Staff

Two Sloth Bears and their Human Family

Mowgli Encounters a Pack of Dholes

The Wild Stars of South India

Snakes Can Be Friends Too

When the King Doesn’t Strike

The Striped Sibling of the Idu Mishmi

The Strategic Strangler of the Forest

An Incident at Dundubhi

When an Elephant Joins a Livestock Herd

Helping a Sister Out of a Pit

Nature and Rhyme: Poems for Wild Things

Two Baby Bears Up a Tree

Meet Naturalist Ruddy: Adventurer, Sleuth, Mongoose

Why Do These Starry-eyed Frogs Disappear into Bamboos?