Dr Vir Singh is a professor of environmental science and the Director of Communication at GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand, India. He has been actively engaged in teaching and research in the Himalayas, and at the main campus of the university for more than three decades. He has published forty-two books and numerous articles. Though most of his work focuses on mountain agroecology, he takes keen interest in philosophy, art and literature as well. He dabbled in journalism for over fifteen years and contributed articles to a variety of newspapers, magazines and journals on vital social, cultural, ecological and developmental issues. Travelling extensively, he has tasted several cultures in the Himalayas, South Asia, Europe and in the West. He is fascinated by and intensively pursues the Skolimowskian eco-philosophy and cosmic philosophy. Resurgence of poetry, according to the author, is necessary for humanity, for total liberation and for acquiring holistic freedom, becoming the means to spread beauty, restore sanity, glory and fullness of life on earth.