Nature's Narratives

The author Ranjit Lal describes his book as a "bait" for those who take nature for granted. The first part illustrates the diversity of life, its beauty, and its fragility.

- Ranjit Lal

A journey through the mesmerising creations of nature, the diverse range of species, the darker side of humanity, their greed and deeds, the resistance against environmental exploitation a narrative spun with threads of science and language. A language that grips with the metaphors and analogies. This is how I would describe the book Our Potpourri Planet, which is thoughtfully divided into three parts, yet tied with curiosity.

In the words of the creator of the book, "The first part illustrates the fantastic diverse forms of life that have evolved; the breathtaking beauty and ingeniousness of nature." This part, the author Ranjit Lal hopes to be like a "bait" for the reader. "Too many people just take these marvels for granted without pausing to think about them. Once you do, then you can't stop..." The second part is a mirror to the destruction humans have been doing to satiate their greed, to showcase their power by exploiting whatever they can the forests, the rivers, the beaches, what not. Nature has also been retaliating to these irreversible damages the sea's disappointment as tsunami, the rivers' spate as floods, forests' anger as temperature imbalance, but will this process of ruination ever stop remains a big question mark.