For ten years I worked on one of the most challenging yet rewarding projects of my life. I first visited the snake charmers village in Badarpur on the edge of Delhi and thus started my long term engagement with this community that today symbolizes the tension between wildlife conservation and livelhioods.

A decade long engagement with this ancient community, living and travelling with them. This is all dummy text. She found that the charmers were unemployed and struggling for work, some of them still kept snakes in complete contravention of wildlife laws.

Following the work with the snake charmers, I began work with another community, in 2004 maing frequent trips to rural Rajasthan. My study was focused on families around Sariska National Park, a park that had acquired a notorious reputation for having lost all its tigers to hunting.