I have always loved to be in the midst of a jungle.......the sound of the crickets.....variedly coloured butterflies hovering all around and sometimes one of it just comes and rests on your body...then again the birds are there to fill your ears with their sweet voices.....its so mesmerising. And as you keep travelling one thing is always in mind......may be a few yards ahead there is some wild animal waiting.......the fear together with the excitement of seeing one is a sort of feeling that i cannot express. These feelings and excitement keeps pushing me into the forests.......My interest in wildlife or the love for nature has perhaps developed from the fact that from my childhood itself i have seen my family performing religious rituals worshiping nature. e.g every year we perform rituals worshiping "Manasa Devi"(Serpent Goddess). There are many such rituals that have perhaps aroused my interest in wildlife. As i grew up i understood the importance of conservation of wildlife and took the plunge into this field. As a first step i chose to study Zoology in my first degree and later i took up Environmental Science in my Masters. During these years i have visited many forests around Guwahati and also some National parks and wildlife sanctuaries of the state as part of academic curriculum.Apart from this i along with some of my friends used to travel to local forest areas during vacations......long walks deep into the woods is physically tiring but at the end of the day it made us more energetic. Also during the years i have seen the plight of the people due to environmental degradation.......of course we are ourselves to be blamed for these. If we as human beings.....the most intelligent of all life forms on earth.......don't realise that whatever Mother Nature has given us is not just for us.....it is to be cherished by all life forms and also our future progeny.....then we are heading towards an inevitable catastrophe very soon.Keeping all this things in mind i have decided to join the crusaders for the environment and dedicate my life towards the advancement of environmental science and technology through research and also bring about an exchange of knowledge between the indigenous people and modern scientific world which would pave the way for a steady and stable earth.
That's why I am an Environmental Researcher!
