It’s been nearly five years in the making, and now it’s almost here! The Trees of My Country: A Natural History of India in 50 Trees, published by Aleph, will hit the bookstores soon.

It took me across India, this great country of the trees, from the steamy forests of the Andaman and Nicobar islands to the high Himalaya, from the coral atolls of Lakshadweep to the far reaches of Arunachal […]

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why.

First, it concerns a proposed project so monumental in its ambitions as in its folly, and so egregious in its likely destruction of vulnerable human lives and ecologies that it deserves all the attention, critique, […]

https://shankarraman.in/2025/05/22/great-nicobar-greenwashing-a-catastrophe/

In the superb new issue of #Frontline... a piece by Rohan Arthur and myself:

An obit for Patai Takaru
"Great Nicobar’s mitigation plans reduce #restoration to tree-planting and reef relocation—a deceptive fix for irreversible #ecological loss."
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-island-andaman-ecological-development-coral-reefs-marine-ecosystems-climate-change/article69158539.ece
#GreatNicobar #islands #Andamans #Conservation #ClimateCrisis #India