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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.
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 is a writer turned wildlife scientist turned writer, living in the Anamalai Hills in southern India. He works with the Nature Conservation Foundation.
