Header Image: Monastary in Lamayuru, Ladakh. Original photograph © 2008 Dr Tilak Bera

Fifth Publication

Andaman & Nicobar
The Mysterious Bay Islands of India
Pre and Post Tsunami

Copyright © Dr Tilak Ranjan Bera

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First Published: 2006

All photographs and text by: Dr Tilak Ranjan Bera
Design by: Saptak Das
Published by: Rebati Raman Bera, Salt Lake, Kolkata
Printed by: Pragati Offset Pvt Ltd. Hyderabad

ISBN 81-7525-675-3

Author's note

Andaman & Nicobar: The Mysterious Bay Islands of India

I am neither a photographer nor a writer. However as a naturalist, I have seen the twin archipelagos of the Andaman and Nicobar islands from one end to the other. I have had the rare opportunity of visiting even the remotest corners of this fascinating group of islands, a camera being my constant companion. Eventually I managed to compile information regarding this interesting part of the country and had enough photographs to help the reader to conceptualise the immense natural wealth of this picturesque union territory of India.

These beautiful islands have recently been hit by a devastating tsunami, triggered by an under-sea earthquake off-coast Indonesia, caused mass destruction across South-east Asia. It also caused extensive physical change and damage to the ecology of these two delicate archipelagos, particularly the Nicobar group of islands killing thousands. Many villages of Nicobar islands portrayed in different photographs of the book, have been affected and some have even been completely wiped out.

The photographs and the original manuscript prepared during the pre-tsunami years 2001 to 2004 for the book have been kept unaltered.

Tilak Ranjan Bera, August 12, 2007

More photographs: Andamans photoalbum

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