Mostly Birds, Some Monkeys, and a Pest (Nature in and Around Delhi)

DETAILS : 

• Publisher: Ravi Dayal Publisher
  
• Author Ranjit Lal
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 188
  
• Cover: Hardcover
  
• Weight 260 gm
  
• Edition: 2000
  
• ISBN: 8175300329

ABOUT THE BOOK

Delhi is officially the fourth most polluted city in the world, but it is also one of the greenest in India, with a rich bird life remaining close at hand and often at your doorstep. This entertaining and instructive volume contains Ranjit Lal's observations on nature around his home in Delhi, at the Old Delhi Ridge, along the Yamuna, in the Zoo and at some other sites such as Humayun's Tomb, JNU and Okhla. There are also descriptions of the bird life once visible in nearby Sultanpur which, together with those on the Ridge, cover each month of the year over a -span of time. Of the ten chapters in this volume, eight focus on birds, but it also has one about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly; and in another chapter there is the stirring saga of the monkeys ruling from the Nicholson cemetry near Kashmiri Gate. Mostly Birds … wittily brings an attractive aspect of Delhi alive and, at the same time, provides the lay reader a useful and wonderfully readable ornithological tour of the region.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ranjit Lal was born in Calcutta in 1955. He was educated in Mumbai and now lives in Delhi. As a freelance writer, he has had over 1000 articles, feature and photo-feature published in newspaper and magazines in India and abroad. These are mostly on natural history, particularly birds; but his range includes automobiles too. Ranjit Lal is the author of Enjoying Birds, an illustrated book on bird-watching, and of two highly-acclaimed novels—The crow chronicles and The Life and Times of Altu-Faltu: A Fable.