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About the Book

From the hotspot of the tribe land of Attapady. Award winning series on Silent Valley, Attapady, Ahads, Nelliampathy, Parambikulam, Bharatapuzha and a host of other issues that keep Western Ghats burning. A personal record of thirty years of blood, toil and tears that storms into one of the world’s most fragile hotspots. For his pioneering efforts, the author, G. Prahakaran of The Hindu won the Kerala State’s inaugural Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Media Award for 2004 and Kerala State Biodiversity Board’s media award for 2014

Silence of the Lambs deals with India’s several environmental issues, river valley civilization and tribal land alienation and restoration of tribal land.

“The monograph Silence of the Lambs by

G.Prabhakaran of The Hindu, recipient of the Kerala State’s Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Memorial Media Award for 2004 and Kerala State Biodiversity Board’s Media Award for 2014, deals with several environmental and developmental issues on Silent Valley, Attappady, Nelliyampathy, Parambikulam and Bharathapuzha.

“These chapters focus on river valley civilization of India in general and that of Kerala in particular. He has highlighted tribal land alienation and restoration of alienated tribal land in great detail. The author has dealt with various current problems of tribal development and environmental issues, health hazards as well as sex rackets and starvation deaths”.

Says Prof. PRG Mathur, internationally recognized social anthropologist

Silence of the Lambs focuses on a number of issues relating to tribal development in India general and Nehru’s Panchasheela in particular for tribal development. The author argues that development programs affecting the ecosystem should not be undertaken. Tribal Attappady Valley should be free of liquor so that the malnutrition and other health hazards including infant mortality and problems of unwed mothers among the tribal people can be prevented.

The author successfully draws the picture of Bharathapuzha river valley civilization and degradation of Nelliyampathy forests as well as Parmbikulam Tiger Reserves. He is very critical of the sand mining mafia in Bharathapuzha. He has a wide range of field experience in conducting studies on the problems of tribal development.

The book will be of use to policy makers, planners, researchers as well as scholars engaged in the study of socio-cultural anthropology and sociology—writes well known social anthropologist PRG Mathur

Kerala State Biodiversity Board commends the author as “a true committed conservationist among writers”.

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
FOREWORD.
PALAKKAD, AN OVERVIEW.
SILENT VALLEY
ATTAPPADY
NELLIAMPATHY
PARAMBIKULAM
BHARATHAPUZHA
ABBREVIATIONS