The stories in the book challenge inequality, ecological damage, centralised governance, and the currently dominant model of development.

Water flowing in a river basin is a complex mixture of physical, chemical and biological contents.

Traditional desert dwellers, traveling mostly on foot, have an innate knowledge of this vast and differentiated land. They map it in inches

Setting up a model farm, where everything is grown (organically)...

Prices of different goods are decided mutually by the farmers and the consumers on a monthly basis.

तरबूज-खरबूज की खेती छोड़ी पक्षियों के लिए !

Understanding that the more important role of the pond was to recharge underground reservoirs and if the water stays longer more will percolate...

These villagers have happily adopted the birds. That is why, gradually, this place has become a hub of rare migratory birds.

The walk is conducted by the light of the full moon - people (experience) nature without ... even simple torches!