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Educated at Jadavpur and North Western Universities, sixty years young Chiranjit Chakraverty is an environmental engineer and a fellow of the Institute of Engineers (India). Held responsible positions with various government and private agencies in India, Nepal and USA. he has been a member of the Expert Committee, Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) of Govt. of India, a fellow of the East-West Center, Honolulu, an advisor to several organisations, and was one of the pioneers of the EIA in India. His book, Environment for Everyone, was widely acclaimed. He is widely travelled, and has lived and worked in diverse fields in many parts of the world and has had intimate contacts with people in all walks of life. His love of the wildlife led him to actually make the forest his home for a considerable period of his life. These are photographs taken by him at the Corbett National Park, Uttaranchal, India and Kanha National park, Madhya Pradesh including A very rare photograph of a page from a Forest Rest House Register showing the signature of Jim Corbett, the Legend. We are grateful to him for granting us the permission to publish these photographs here. You may click to read his Poetry or read his Opinions on various issues. Address: 134 Regent Estate, Kolkata-700092. Tel: 91 33 24121557. Please click on the photographs below to view full screen images. |