Smart Photography Feature!

‘Smart’ is generally not a term the average Joe employs in describing me, but Smart Photography magazine has nevertheless featured me in the February 2014 edition of the print monthly, with a mention on the front cover.  Here are some snapshots: The Smart Photography Feature, January 2014 – Pages 1 and 2 Pages 3 and…

The Ultimate Cat: A Reprise

When the golden rays shied from the dark alleys, the breeze ceased and the air stood still not to carry his scent, when his brethren remained mute and wouldn’t tell of the fire moving through the forest, my Ultimate Cat sang a silent reprise, and the dawn broke into raptures. Kanha Tiger Reserve, November 2013…

An Ode to a Girl

To her who can – evoke a smile for no reason; hand a ‘happy high’ sans spirits; yet with her single glimpse raise… sky-high a dead man’s spirits; To her who can – with her beauty set even a stoic heart aflutter, and make the most articulate tongue stutter; bring spring to a barren soul,…

Wise as a Tiger

My eleventh visit to Bandhavgarh began on an ominous note.   At the tail end of the first safari, we arrived at Gopalpur Meadow to find an extremely genial English gentleman, whom I was to later identify as John Aitchison, a wildlife cameraman who’d won an Emmy for my then favourite documentary, Frozen Planet.  He…