Arati Kumar-Rao is a National Geographic Explorer, an independent environmental photographer, a writer, and an artist. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Emergence, BBC, and in leading Indian publications. Arati was named in BBC’s 100 Influential and Inspiring women from around the world in 2023. When not on assignment, she splits her time between a biodiversity hotspot—the Western Ghats—and Bangalore in India.
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Books by Arati Kumar-Rao
Nonfiction
A Journey into India's Vanishing Landscapes
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“Marginlands is a tour de force, a magnificent first book about India’s marginalized landscapes and inhabitants, written with compassion, compressed elegance of observation, and urgent political force.”—Robert Macfarlane
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