Biography of janaki lenin
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A legend in the arena of wildlife conservation and affectionately hailed as the &#;Snakeman of India&#;, Romulus Whitaker has had a lifelong love affair with the &#;fierce creatures&#; that share our planet. This first volume of his fascinating memoir brings the India of the s and the US of the s to life.
When his mother married and moved to Mumbai, Whitaker was transplanted from a conventional childhood in the US to what was for him the exciting world of India. At boarding school in Kodai, he kept a pet python under his bed and realized that all he really wanted to do was work with snakes. Sent to the US for college, Whitaker preferred snakes to lecture halls and left to work on a snake farm. The adventures that ensue are hair-raising and often hilarious.
Snakes, Drugs and Rock &#;n&#; Roll tells the story of a boy who would become one of the greatest conservationists of his generation, discovering the wonders of India&#;s extraordinary natural world.
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I&#;m the author of A King Cobra&#;s Summer (), My Husband and Other Animals (), My Husband and Other Animals 2 &#; The Wildlife Adventure Continues, () and Every Creature Has A Story (). I co-wrote the first volume of my husband Romulus Whitaker&#;s autobiography, Snakes, Drugs and Rock &#;n&#; Roll, to be released in January
I facilitated the drafting of a management strategi for non-human primates living with humans in With Professor R. Sukumar, I wrote the Action Plan for the Mitigation of Elephant-Human Conflict in India and contributed to the Guidelines for Human-Leopard Conflict Management. Between and , inom was the Regional Chair for the IUCN/SSC/Crocodile expert Group (South Asia and Iran), Executive Secretary of the Gharial Conservation Alliance, and a member of IUCN&#;s Theme on the Social and Environmental Accountability of the Private Sector.
As a spelfilm editor, inom worked on numerous soaps and commercials. I set up Draco Films, a wildlife rulle production c
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Janaki Lenin was a film-maker for more than a decade. After six years of editing advertising commercials and soap operas, she was desperate for a change of direction. Getting involved with Romulus Whitaker opened up exciting avenues. Together, they founded Draco Films and produced over twenty documentary films for National Geographic Television and other channels. Their first collaboration, King Cobra, won an Emmy.
She was the Regional Chair of the IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group for South Asia and Iran. In , she expanded the scope of her work to include mammals. She facilitated a working group of primatologists which drafted a National Action Plan for nuisance primates. With Professor R. Sukumar, she authored an action plan for the mitigation of human-elephant conflict in India with funding from US Fish and Wildlife Service. She set up Draco Books to co-publish Snakes of India: The Field Guide by Romulus Whitaker and Ashok Captain in
Janaki spends her time doing wh