Laced with references to Hindu deities, hard-nosed research into Indian land use and bold attacks on Western science ... Staying Alive has the go of a big personality behind it.

Shiva’s powerful narratives allow us to hold a piece of food in our hands ... lets us trace backwards the story of the land it was grown on, the cultural and economic toll on the ecosystem and people, the sacrifice endured so that it might be made, the full weight of environmental devastation present in its existence.

Cogently written, empirically sensitive, and marked by passion and conviction.

Staying Alive is a book that can change one’s way of seeing the world.

... extraordinary in the ease of its global and historical scopes and the clarity of its arguments.