Rishikesh Upadhyay is the editor of the book The Life of Plants in a Changing Environment. An educator, he lives in Haflong, Assam, India.
Q: What inspired you to work on The Life of Plants in a Changing Environment?
A: Well, that is largely a mystery. Simply, I just love to write, learn, and teach.
Q: How did you research the book, and what did you learn that especially surprised you?
A: By day, I work at a local government college, and by night I pour my imagination out onto a page. I believe in and write about plants and their environment. It was in research and teaching for students in science that I stumbled across a desire to write articles and books.
Plants, though immobile, also have senses and could survive in different environment through different internal adaptive mechanisms, like humans.
Q: What do you hope readers take away from the book?
A: I hope they will recognize and learn about the importance of plants when they read my writings, because it’s a message that everyone deserves to be seen and understood.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I am currently working on my next new nonfiction book. I would like to say that it is connected with plants, nature, and the environment in just about every way.
Q: Anything else we should know?
A: Yes! I love teaching, learning, doing research work in the laboratory and writing research articles and books. Readers can reach me via Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h232zIsAAAAJ, Twitter https://twitter.com/RKUpadhy, and LinkedIn https://Top of Form
www.linkedin.com/in/rishikesh-upadhyay
And I really appreciate you, Deborah Kalb, for giving me this opportunity. Just a big “Thank You” for this opportunity to share my story with esteemed readers.
--Interview with Deborah Kalb
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