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Last week, I spent a few days in Rajasthan with camel herders. I was traveling for a ground report for aMintLong Story, trying to understand the reasons behind a steady decline in the camel population in India. Looks like camels may end up as zoo exhibits in a decade or two.

I will always remember those three days spent with theRaikas(the traditional herders from Rajasthan) for the insights on livestock management practices of a semi-nomadic tribe, and their changing relations with a desert ecology encompassing forests and pastures-which t...