About the Book: The Age of Endlings: Explorations and Investigations into the
Indian Wild
These are not trophy tales of the photographer or his ancestor, the hunter. Nor
are these entreaties of the save-the-world ilk. Curious and clinical, irreverent
but reasoned, these essays and exposes raise a few fascinating questions to
better understand the human-nature interfaces in an increasingly crowded and
edgy India.
Alongside the gripping whodunit and the sobering myth-buster are the stories of
a cursed river, a tiger reserve on sale, a desert snake that breathes death, a
tribe that threatens to die if forced out of its forests and a species destined
to become the loneliest