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

The refreshing coolness of the air was what I first registered as I opened the door and stepped out onto the verandah. The joyous awareness of the musical symphony the birds were creating followed a second later.   That insouciant lad whistling gaily in the happy knowledge of the fact that he is going to be skipping school today ? That was the Malabar whistling thrush.   That pedantic knocking of a labourer going about his daily dreary tasks ? That was the barbet.   Then 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...

I was in a bit of a funk.   A vague sense of restlessness had crept up in me.   For a variety of reasons, all very genuine and nothing I...

“ 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,...

In 2025, it is estimated that we humans will take around 2  trillion  photos.   As of now, all of us put together take 61,000 photos...

“ 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...

Nothing was working.   The swans were not exactly being cooperative. Most of them were busy snoozing, heads tucked in deep under their...

“ A good photograph must be waited for. You don’t chase it, you let it come to you. You just need to be attentive, present and open.”   I...

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

‘ How did you feel when you saw 80,000 birds in Norway at once? Did the sound of those birds flying at the same time remind you of some...

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,...

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. Geraldine Jewsbury   A giraffe IS such...

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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...

Things have changed.   There used to be a time when I would approach a trip in a blasé manner, insouciantly setting off with the biggest...

There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very end. Like when you know that the cheetah...

An ode to the timeless magic that a sunrise and a sunset create