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A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

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Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a central authority unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor more and more living in worlds apart; for among the world, this picture is of a imaginable future. For India, it’s the very real present.

In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels looking for the atypical people and microenterprises decided to revive India’s ravaged wildlife: 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. At the same time as investigating these five environmental challenges, Subramanian discovers the stories that renew hope for a nation with the potential to lead India and the planet into a sustainable and prosperous future.
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