Green Wars

Bahar Dutt

HarperCollins India,

172 pages, Rs. 250

As India makes its way to being a super economy, the impact of the current model of growth on the country’s wildlife remains largely unreported. Dutt, a wildlife biologist and journalist, draws on her experience as a conservationist to examine how the tension between modernising an economy and saving the environment can be resolved. She also travels to the far ends of the planet to report on some of the biggest environmental stories of our time, from climate change to illegal mining to big dams being constructed in tropical rainforests.