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The Shadows In The Jungle

Author Name: Rajesh Kallaje | Format: Paperback | Genre : Outdoors & Nature | Other Details

Senthil, a young and idealistic Indian Forest Service officer from Chennai gets posted to Central India. He is soon exposed to the corruption in the government departments, shady senior officers, mining mafia, naxal menace and human-elephant conflict. When his honesty comes in direct confrontation with the politics of postings and transfers, Senthil is slowly and surely tested. Working in rural hinterlands, he is shocked to see the misery of the tribals, crushed between the naxals and the police. It is not long before he discovers the cruel hollowness of the Maoist ideology.

 

Senthil witnesses the tragedy of elephant menace and much to his heartburn a rogue tusker is marked to be eliminated. Wherever he is posted, Senthil manages to rub the political leaders the wrong way and is shunted out from one post to another. Will he be able to stick to his principles? Will he get support from his superiors? Will his wife Manjula stand by him? 

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Rajesh Kallaje

Rajesh Kallaje is an Indian Forest Service Officer who has worked in Nagaland, Chhattisgarh and Bengaluru. During his tenures in the state forest department and other sectors, he has handled different responsibilities. An avid trekker and photographer, he also loves traveling, reading and writing.  He hails from coastal Karnataka and is currently based in Bengaluru with his wife Praneetha (also an IFS officer) and children Adithya and Aniruddha. Rajesh is also an occasional blogger (muses-at-random.blogspot.com) and this is his first book.

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