A book reading session ‘Meet the Author’ will be organised for the literature lovers of the city at Swami Vivekananda library here on Tuesday. Noted author Raghav Chandra would recite his book, A Scent of a Game.
The programme Meet the Author is organised jointly by Swami Vivekananda library and Club literati, Bhopal. The programme would begin at 7 pm.
The book reading session would be conducted by Raghav Chandra. Chandra is a senior civil servant and the author of Scent of a Game. Notably, Chandra’s maiden novel is woven against the backdrop of wildlife conservation. This mystery-drama- thriller spans the lovely tiger reserves of Central India, and moves on to Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia and China.
It is the story of a popular tigress that mysteriously vanishes from the Kanha Tiger Reserve, and stars a devoted forest officer, a vivacious journalist, an NRI from the Silicon Valley and several riveting characters. With a writing style that is full of wit, fact, fiction, and an intimate knowledge of the tiger and its habitat, Scent of a Game gives graphic details of the dark world of trophy hunting and tiger poaching.
Raghav Chandra is an MP cadre IAS officer of 1982 batch. He has Masters Degree in Mathematics and Public Administration from Delhi University and Harvard respectively. As a civil servant he has worked both in the State of Madhya Pradesh and for Government of India. Having spent several years in the tiger territory of the state, he has closely observed the conflicts that have critically endangered our ecosystem and wildlife, particularly the tiger. He has been published in several reputed social and economic journals. He has earlier conceptualized the creation of the social media website: scratchmysoul.com. He has also written a case study for the Cambridge University on the Indian Highways Sector. Scent of a Game is his first novel, published by Rupa in May 2014.