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Ajit Mani

Ajit Mani worked as an executive of Malayalam Plantations (UK) Ltd. from 1967 to 1979, where his first two assignments involved supervision of timber felling in the Company’s vast ‘Private Forests’ from two of its tea estates in the Wayanad. Subsequently, he was assigned by the Wayanad Group of Malayalam Plantations estates to assess timber wealth in its other estates. During this time, he came in contact with tribals and NGOs working with tribals in various parts of South Wayanad Taluk of Calicut District. He was an Assistant Superintendent on tea divisions in Choladi and Cherambadi viRead More...

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The Nawab's Tears

Books by Ajit Mani

Professor Avaran Kuriakose specialises in the history of the Deccan. A former colleague and friend calls him to the erswhile princely state of Arcot to decipher a set of clues contained in a Masonic Lodge Minutes Book and a 250 year old diary.

Avaran locates a long-lost family heirloom with a gory past.

He is a Freemason and Knight Templar and knows his life is in danger because of his involvement in this assignment.

The plot and the chara

RETURN OF THE YAKSHI

Books by Ajit Mani

Return of the Yakshi is a story of friendship, idealism, love and a brief but violent revolution that was followed by the passing of land reform legislation in Kerala. It explores the psyche of “Urban Naxals” who get involved in dangerous activities labelled as “seditious” at the risk of their lives.

Although the story is complete fiction, it has a historical setting where the author has taken creative liberties with incidents, charact

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Ajit Mani worked as an executive of Malayalam Plantations (UK) Ltd. from 1967 to 1979, where his first two assignments involved supervision of timber felling in the Company’s vast ‘Private Forests’ from two of its tea estates in the Wayanad. Subsequently, he was assigned by the Wayanad Group of Malayalam Plantations estates to assess timber wealth in its other estates. 
During this time, he came in contact with tribals and NGOs working with tribals in various parts of South Wayanad Taluk of Calicut District.
He was an Assistant Superintendent on tea divisions in Choladi and Cherambadi villages of Gudalur Taluk, Nilgiris District, and Acting Superintendent on a tea estate in Sultan’s Battery Taluk of Calicut District respectively at the height of Naxal activity in Wayanad. 
In 1980, he studied the agitation against a planned hydro-electric dam in Silent Valley, Palakkad. Here he came in contact with tribal leaders and members of the Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP).
Mani spent eighteen months on Pamban Island in the Gulf of Mannar and lived among the fisherfolk of Chinnapalam Village near Pamban Railway Station. 
The author is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (1983/85) and has specialised in Agriculture and Rural Development Sector Management. 
Ajit Mani is the author of Tears of The Nawab, published in November 2018 by Partridge Publishers.

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Ajit Mani

The Nawab's Tears

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RETURN OF THE YAKSHI

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