Sushil LakraChef & Field Assistant Sushil is a chef and is in charge of the leatherback monitoring camp in Little Andaman Island. Since 2013, he has spent many a sleepless night assisting in leatherback surveys, as well as accompanying researchers in their fieldwork for marine research. One could call him a man of many skills,…
Sarojini TirkeyHousekeeping Assistant Sarojini Tirkey is a kitchen and housekeeping staff at ANET with a longstanding relationship with the field station and its people. She works conscientiously at managing resources and people in the kitchen and contributes to cleaning rooms and keeping them more than liveable. Saroj is from Badakhadi village in Rutland and speaks Hindi…
Manisha SinghKitchen Assistant Manisha Singh has responsibilities in the kitchen and in housekeeping. She magically cleans dirty vessels, dusty rooms and also manages the laundry. Outside of base duties, she is interested in birding and forestry field work. Manisha is from Sunny Kattai in Diglipur, North Andaman and speaks Hindi, English and Sadri. Sunny also…
Caleb Daniel GAffiliate Qualifications: Masters in Ecology and Environmental Science, Pondicherry University Email: caleb992@gmail.com Profile: I have been fascinated by the natural world and the animals in it for as long as I can remember. Over the years, I approached a lot of disciplines which fostered an element of being outdoors and working in wild systems.…
Dr. Abhijit Das Abhijit is a public health physician with over thirty years’ experience in working on reproductive health, human rights, and health governance as well as gender, men, and masculinities at the national and global level. He has been one of the global pioneers in devising successful approaches for involving men for gender equality…
Aroon Raman Aroon Raman was educated at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Pennsylvania. After successfully divesting his advanced materials companies to multinationals, Aroon now engages actively in both the for-profit and non-profit space—as a member of various corporate boards and charitable trusts. He is especially interested in appropriate technology issues. He also a…
Rom Whitaker Romulus Whitaker was born in New York City in 1943 and came to India in 1951 with his mother Doris and step-father Rama, son of Kamaladevi and Harindranath Chattopadhyaya. Rom set up India’s first reptile park, the Madras Snake Park in 1969 outside of Chennai city. In 1971 it shifted to Guindy Deer…
Zai Whitaker Zai Whitaker grew up in a family of naturalists, which ignited her interest in conservation at an early age. With ex-husband Rom Whitaker she helped start and develop several organisations and projects, including the Irula Women’s Society and the Madras Crocodile Bank/Centre for Herpetology, where she lives and works. Her other interest is…
Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction, a collection of essays and ten novels. His books have won many prizes and he holds four honorary doctorates. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages…
Aradhana Seth Aradhana Seth is a filmmaker, production designer, visual artist and producer. She art directed the films The Darjeeling Limited, London Has Fallen and The Bourne Supremacy. As an artist she has had solo shows at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Sunapranta, Goa. Her work has been exhibited with Andrea Anastasio at Istituto Italiano de Cultura,…