Indica

By Pranay Lal,

Book cover of Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent

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Did you know that the exquisite caves of Ellora were hewn from rock formed in the greatest lava floods the world has known-eruptions so enormous that they may well have obliterated dinosaurs? Or that Bengaluru owes its unique climate to a tectonic event that took place 88 million years ago?…

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Indica was gifted to my naturalist father by the author Pranay Lal. It took a long time to reach me. And was I happy to lay my paws on this utterly spectacular tome!

The scope of Indica, from the time earth’s day was 6 hours long to the evolution of gargantuan mammals to the arrival of sapiens on the bank of Indus, is breathtaking. While reading it, I could picture the vivacious Pranay stopping his car on a highway to check out a forgotten stone or explaining a virus as if it were a friend.

Although you won’t…

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