Dr. Sheelwant Patel, pen name P. Sheelwant, has been an insurance seller, a forester, anenvironmentalist, and a researcher. He has authored two books – one on soil-environmentconservation and the o...vizualizați mai multeDr. Sheelwant Patel, pen name P. Sheelwant, has been an insurance seller, a forester, anenvironmentalist, and a researcher. He has authored two books – one on soil-environmentconservation and the other on medicines from trees. He has climbed the Himalayas, stalkedkiller elephants in jungles, and halted in many a haunted halting house in the hilly Himalayanwilderness. He has come across many an apparition, later to be found out to be funny auralhallucinations. Yet, he can’t stop his hair from rising at their ends if he bumps in close proximityof a wall lizard!A docudrama based on his narrative about a devout Muslim’s intense love for elephant, a livingdeity of Hindus, has won a national award for the best documentary on environmentconservation.He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two extraordinary kids, now grownup, one an animatorand the other a film maker.vizualizați mai puține