The Hornbill King: The Festival Of Roots - Paperback

by Dinnis Thommachan (Author)

The forest doesn't just live. It remembers. It sings. In the lush depths of the Western Ghats, the ancient Festival of Roots is about to begin-a celebration of unity where hornbills dance, crickets compose symphonies, and memory-plants pulse with the forest's shared joy. Seventeen-moon-old Phalgun is ready to join the Aerial Ballet for the first time. But as lanterns glow and music swells, the rhythm of celebration is shattered by the whump-whump-whump of human helicopters. They've come not to observe, but to extract-and the forest's newest, most fragile citizens, the shoots, are their target. To survive, the Western Ghats must fight as it lives: together. Drongos weave sonic deception. Weaver birds cast living nets. Langurs redirect landslides. And Phalgun must rally a swarm of feathers, fur, and scale to defend a kingdom where every creature is a thread in the same vibrant web.