Review: Green Pearls of India by V Sundararaju
If ever a book needed translation into Hindi and other Indian languages and should be read and discussed on rural community radio, it is Green Pearls of India by V Sundararaju, which describes 27 trees considered sacred in India. The book should also be of interest to those researching biodiversity, ecology and religion. The regular urban reader, in turn, is likely to be charmed by how religion and culture are inseparably married to the land of India through Nature. Students in schools and colleges will find it a mine…