About the Book: Man Who Made Plants Write
In The Man Who Made Plants Write, internationally renowned poet and critic
Sumana Roy translates Jagadish Chandra Boses revolutionary writings on the
environment.
Bose (18581937), a scientist and polymath, devoted much of his time to
presenting a sophisticated vision of plant communication. He suggested that
trees had an unvoiced life, their own idiom as it were, a way of responding to
each other and to the world around, which could be recorded as a script with a
crescograph.
In his essay collection Abyakta—The Unsaid—Bose implored his readers to tune
into the airborne sounds these beings emitted