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Shivaji Das is the author of eight critically acclaimed travel, art and business books. He was the first prize winner for Time Magazine's Sub-Continental Drift Essay contest and shortlisted for Fair Australia Prize for Short Stories.
Shivaji has been actively involved in migrant issues and is the conceptualizer and organizer for the acclaimed Migrant Worker and Refugee Poetry Contests in Singapore, Malaysia and Kenya and is the founder and director of the Global Migrant Festival.
Shivaji's work and his interviews have been featured on BBC, CNBC, The Economist, Travel Radio Australia, Around the World TV, etc. Shivaji's writings have been published in magazines such as TIME, South China Morning Post, Think China, Asian Geographic, Jakarta Post ...more

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	The Visible Invisibles: Stories of Migrant Workers in Asia by Shivaji Das (Goodreads Author), Yolanda Yu 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journeys with the caterpillar: Travelling through the islands of Flores and Sumba, Indonesia 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Shangri-la: Journey through the Sino-Tibetan Frontier in Sichuan 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers: True stories of Love and Conflict in Indian-Chinese Relationships by Shivaji Das (Goodreads Author), Yolanda Yu 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the World by Shivaji Das (Goodreads Author), Aroop Zutshi, Janesh Janardhanan 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angels by the Murky River really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacred Love: Erotic art in the temples of Nepal 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Feb 10, 2014 05:19AM

Why the book is called Journeys with the caterpillar?

I have often been asked why I named the book, Journeys with the caterpillar
Well, all along Flores and Sumba, the bemos or vans for public transport invariably have a stuffed caterpillar on their dashboards. So it joined us for all our journeys.
Also, the islands presented to us an unexpected variety: landscape with rolling hills, colored lakes, barren flatlands, pink beaches. The fauna from Komodo Dragons to the world’s largest rat; human faces whose origins could be traced to all parts of the world and their cultures with their distinctive villages, traditional sports, social structures; all jumbled in like in a kaleidoscope; just like the multicolored stuffed caterpillar.

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