Author: R. Venkat Ramanujam

R. Venkat Ramanujam is a PhD Scholar at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India. His ongoing PhD research project, entitled Shifting human-nature interactions in the Maikal Hills of Madhya Pradesh, India, explores rural transformation among forest-dwelling communities in Central India through an ethnographic investigation of changing livelihoods and environment attitudes. He has spent several years as a grassroots development practitioner, much of it in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, where he worked with the indigenous Nicobarese people as part of the post-tsunami rehabilitation process. He has also lived among forest-dwelling communities in Western and Central India as a practitioner and, more recently, as a researcher. His email address is ramanujam.venkat@gmail.com