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Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and microenterprises determined to revive India's ravaged natural world: an engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates; villagers resuscitate a river run dry; cook stove designers persist on the quest for a smokeless fire; biologists bring vultures back from the brink of extinction; and in Bihar, one of India's most impoverished states, a bold young woman teaches adolescents the fundamentals of sexual health.
About the Author
Meera Subramanian is award-winning journalist, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow (2016-17) and Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellow (2013-14) who writes about culture and the environment for newspapers and magazines around the world. In 2019-2020, she'll be the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University.
