PHILIP GAIN is trained as a journalist and writer, but his predilection for images and the issues concerning forests, forest dependent people and their cultural life has brought him close to the ground realities. That he has also not missed the beautiful minds, hearts and hospitality of different forest dependent people is evident from the images that are presented in this book. Philip Gain received an M.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism from University of Dhaka in 1987; awarded Ashoka fellowship in 1989; awarded Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship (US) in 1993; and elected World Fellow of Yale University (US) in 2002. Currently, he runs Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD). Philip Gain has authored and edited more than a dozen of books, published many reports and critiques on forests, environment and ethnic communities among others and has produced documentary films on forests and the ethnic communities that live in the