Allen Lane

Madhav Gadgil was born in Pune in 1942, just as Salim Ali’s superbly illustrated Book of Indian Birds was published. Influenced by his birdwatcher father, he learnt to recognize birds from their pictures even before he could read. He is an unusual combination of a person fascinated by the diversity ..

Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up,..