I put my camera down.   The scene was too amusing to remain detached and focused on mundane things like composition and carefully considered camera settings.   I was sitting on the ground, right in front of the bungalow I was staying in. In front of me a Lion Tailed Macaque was utterly captivated by an empty coconut shell. It studied it closely. It tried to peer through it. It gnawed at it in various ways. After a while, it seemed to get frustrated that it hadn’t unlocked the

My daughter looked up at me across the dining table, over the remnants of her dinner. Her eyebrows arched up, her face looking mildly...

“ Fox in Socks, our game is done, sir. Thank you for a lot of fun, sir” – Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss   Occasionally, it happens in a group,...

“ We were so far north in Japan that we could actually see Russia .”   That was my favorite oh so casually dropped line after our Japan...

The place looked straight out of a fairytale book.   I walked down the gently sloping path from the ticket counter. Slowly. I looked...

Last year, a rhino was killed every 15 hours.   Let’s zoom out and find out what that actually means. At the start of the 20th century,...

“ The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth.” – Marlee Matlin   A couple of months back I made a much looked forward to...

I froze.   Even the slightest movement from me could destroy the moment.   To my right, around ten to twelve feet away, there was a...

Many had asked me over the last year or so.   I used to recoil at the suggestion.   Me ? Now ? At this stage ?   Nah…of course not.   I...

Continuing with my aim to get guest posts for you each quarter, I had requested Shreeram MV, an ace photographer, a good friend and one...

As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen – or set off aboard the...

I had recently written about how I had run into problems with accessing all my images which were scattered across multiple hard drives....

It doesn’t happen suddenly. It also doesn’t happen at the same time. You first notice it in the waters. One moment they are contemplative...

Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that made me sit up and think....

Bharatpur is bewitched. At least, in winter. Here, you don’t tumble out of a cupboard into a Narniaesque world. Instead, its a slow and...

Pushkar. I can’t remember exactly how Pushkar got imprinted on my mind. Of course, it was a usual quiz question in early years about...

Our chopper swung sharply to the left, after speeding ahead of the running zebras and, as a single unit, the zebras took an immediate U...

“ I just want to see them. I don’t care if I can’t make a good photo. I just want to get the opportunity to see them.” These were my...

“ Are those elephants ?” “ No…just a mirage.” Followed by a chuckle. That was our guide, Lenny. “ What about those ?” “ Bushes.” Now it...

He stood deep in the shadows. Silent. Unhurried. He badly needed a drink, but experience had taught him that its better to be cautious....