"M. Krishnan (1913-96) was a naturalist known for his prose style, learning, and astonishingly wide range of interests. For nearly sixty years he wrote columns, essays, sketches and jeremiads on the ecology and culture of the Indian subcontinent. His subjects included tigers, elephants, butterflies, reptiles, cats, dogs, wetlands, deserts and croplands, and his nature writings are among the most readable ever written in English. Though Krishnan is almost unequalled as a chronicler of the natural world, his work has mostly remained buried and inaccessible in old newspapers and magazines. This collection showcases some of Krishnan’s finest essays: on large mammals, little creatures, nature in temple art and folklore, nature’s desecration and conservation. These writings are speculative, scientific, allusive, opinionated, and acid in their wit."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and columnist based in Bangalore. He has taught at the universities of Yale, Stanford, and Oslo, and at the Indian Institute of Science. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989), and an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002). India after Gandhi (Macmillan/Ecco Press, 2007) was chosen as a book of the year by the Economist, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out and Outlook; and as a book of the decade in the Times of India, the Times of London, and The Hindu. Guha's books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The New York Times has referred to him as "perhaps the best among India's non fiction writers"; Time Magazine has called him "Indian democracy's preeminent chronicler".Ramachandra Guha's awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Daily Telegraph/Cricket Society prize, the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for excellence in social science research, the Ramnath Goenka Prize for excellence in journalism, and the R. K. Narayan Prize. In 2008 Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines nominated Guha as one of the world's hundred most influential intellectuals. In 2009 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan.
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