Animals

'There is an invisible ancient thread running through our collective human consciousness—a golden tether that binds us not only to the earth but to all that crawls, soars, prowls and sings upon it ...'

On each page of Animals, a new emotional experience awaits the reader.

A sizeable bull sits lazily in a sari shop, a monkey watches over the glittering night lights of a hill town, a horse offers the photographer and his shuttering device a hilarious sidelong glance.

Then there are images of walls lined with the snarling severed heads of big cats, elephants performing at a circus, unsuspecting gharials being forced out of a pond too close to a village.

In this profound juxtaposition rests an enduring hope—to rekindle the spirit of coexistence amongst all living beings.

Through the visionary lens of one of the country's leading photojournalists, Raghu Rai, witness another India that remains mostly unnoticed—or otherwise viciously brutalized. With a powerful introduction by animal rights activist and politician Maneka Gandhi, Animals is for everyone who believes in a more equal, just world, where all that breathes, breathes freely.