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Jyothi Menon’s sixth book, The Angry Earth, is written with a rare passion that intermingles fantasy with purpose. We experience the shifting world through the eyes of a Special Child Pooja who befriends lost aliens Pan and Bia from a distant planet in her backyard.Her scientific, geeky friend Hari is intrigued. The tradition-bound local shaman Karma Palan is hardly surprised. What’s going on?Will Pooja and friends manage to send the aliens safely back home?Do the aliens have a message for Pooja and the rest of us? Will Hari’s genius decode their purpose here on earth? Will the local shaman’s magic throwany light on what the aliens are up to?By the time you finish, you will find yourself immersed in the richworld of tea estates, indigenous tribes, forests and ancient traditionslong forgotten. But you will also understand where we have failedin taking care of our planet.The Angry Earth is an important book because its powerful storytelling leads you to a dramatic realisation: Our planet needs our protection.Before we can safely hand it over to future generations.