LEWISTON — Nonfiction writer Meera Subramanian will read from and discuss her book on India’s environment at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at Bates College.

The book is titled “A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis From the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka.” 

In this, her first book, Subramanian seeks out the ordinary people and projects determined to revive India’s ravaged natural world: an engineer-turned-farmer who brings organic food to Indian plates; villagers who resuscitate a river run dry; cookstove designers striving for a smokeless fire; biologists bringing vultures back from the brink of extinction; and in one of India’s most impoverished states, a bold young woman who teaches adolescents the fundamentals of sexual health.

For more information, contact 207-786-8277.