Books and Other Products.

1. Free From School
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   Price Rs 100/-

   Pages : 200

   Summery
   

   It’s not every day that a 16 year old writes a book. In fact, girls and boys of that age are supposed to spend their time studying what other people write. It is presumed that at that age they do not themselves have anything significant or interesting to say. And the education system guarantees just that. The best rewards go to those who can parrot set answers to set questions in examination halls. Those who try to use their imagination or reply differently are often punished with low grades.

   Rahul Alvares did not set out to write a book. Under the encouragement of his parents, he consciously set out to try his hand at learning things outside the school framework and you might say as a result, Free From School, actually came looking for him! After his SSC, unlike his other classmates, he opted out of schooling to follow his instincts; fond of reptiles, he chased them at the Pune Snake Park, and at the Crocodile Bank at Mamallapuram. In the process he also picked up trails of spiders, earthworms and turtles. He caught snakes in the company of Irula tribals. He got bitten by hot-tempered reptiles. He came out of it all grinning and wiser.

   Free From School is his story of a year out of school, when the learning graph of his young life went up leaps and bounds. He wrote it to encourage other body and girls his age to move out of the sterile school and college environment offered by India’s antiquarian educational system, if they wish to experience another side to life and learning. He lost nothing but gained a lot. So did his parents. When you read his story, so will you.

   Download the PDF version here

2. The Call of the Snakes
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   Price Rs 125/-

   Pages : 200

   Summery
   The simple one-syllable word ‘snake’ readily conjures up waves of terror in the hearts of most people. Here’s a book that will help you change your mind – and successfully treat your inherited fears – about these creatures. The Call of the Snake contains consummate little stories about snakes written by one of Goa’s better known snake handlers, while on his snake-catching rounds.

   Related with a fine sense of humour and with great attention to detail, the stories will teach you a lot about these reptiles while also keeping you wholly enthralled and entertained. After you have read and enjoyed them, you will see snakes differently forever; as friends and not as mortal enemies.

   The book contains, in addition, critically useful information about snakes and how you can survive a venomous snake bite.

   Download the PDF version here

3. How to Handle Snakes (Co-Authored Maneka Gandhi)
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   Price : Rs.150 (US $4)

   Pages : 200

   Summery
   About my proffession as a snake catcher. (Like paradise Fly catcher) you will be provided with a password to unzip the file. Please note that without the password, the zip file is useless.

   Download the PDF version here

4. Bushmaster (CD):
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   The Bushmaster is the story of my life with reptiles. The movie features the typical snake call, my work with the hotels, snake release into the forest, etc. Included in the movie also are excellent shots of pythons swallowing rats, a small snake handling instructional, and ten minutes of bike scenes – myself and my enfield riding the open roads of Goa with green fields on either side.

   If you have been a regular reader of Creepy you will have also guessed by now that I would have included a fair share of humor! The soundtrack for the movie includes four rock songs of my choice.

   As usual the target of this movie is to promote myself and making myself more famous! But really a lot of people these days want to know what I am up to and what my work with snakes is all about. The Bushmaster explains just that.

   Considering the CD is promo material I am selling the film for sixty five rupees only (including the price of the CD). Included along with this CD will be all the back issues of creepy times and other articles I’ve written on snakes and other animals.

   But wait! I’ve got an even better deal. For another thirty five rupees (a hundred in total) I am prepared to include, in E-book format, my two books - Free From School (price 100) and, The Call of the Snake (price 110) – and a ‘How to handle snakes’ manuscript I worked on for Maneka Gandhi years ago.

   Mail me if you are interested!

5. Handpainted T shirts
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   All T-shirts are export quality and come in a variety of sizes from small to XXXL. I’ve also got quite a choice in color with rust, peach, yellow, grey, white, yellow, orange, being some of the colors available. Every T shirt is hand painted by Call of the Snake illustrator Nicky Thomas. The T-shirts are priced at Rs 500/- (postage extra).