About the Book: The Natural Heritage of Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh: Wildlife-Forests
"Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. If anyone
has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about
India's northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its
valleys, peaks and rivers.
While his quest for leopards (snow-as well as plain) and black-necked cranes was
personal (and not always successful), sometimes he got paid to do what he loved
doing anyway. As the Vice Chairman of the Lakes and Waterways Development
Authority he cleaned up a portion of Anchar, a lake that is right within
Srinagar