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Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal
Author: Sumana Roy
Publisher: Oxford
Pages: 204 Price: ₹995
Sumana Roy has chosen to title the introductory chapter of her book “Phloem” rather than Preface or Introduction. Choosing this noun instead of the more functional descriptors is unusual, but not if you are a botanist by training or an avid follower of Roy’s writings, enriched as they are with the idea of celebrating plants as living beings. Phloem means the “material in a plant containing very small tubes that carry sugars produced in the leaves around the plant”.
A preface helps convey to the reader the key elements
