I have never met Madhav Gadgil but kept hearing and reading about his pioneering work as an ecologist, his campaigns to save the Western Ghats, his enormous contribution to the Biological Diversity Act and the creation of the People’s Biodiversity Register. Naturally, I was all pumped up to read his autobiographical book A Walk Up … Continue reading [Book Review] Pioneer ecologist Madhav Gadgil on his life spent in, and for, India’s biodiversity