Conservation writer, historian, naturalist and veteran activist, S. Theodore Baskaran won the Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020 for his role in wildlife conservation and his continuing legacy of writings in Tamil and English to the conservation discourse.
Baskaran authored five books in English, including ‘The Dance of the Sarus: Essays of a Wandering Naturalist’ (1999); ‘The Book of Indian Dogs’ (2017) and more recently, in 2020, ‘A Day with the Shama: Essays on Nature’.