Trip Report by Abilash Mandappa It started out with Alexander Frater’s Chasing the Monsoon. And so I’d spent the last few years chasing Cherapunji. Finally the alarm bells rang. 5: 30 a.m. Time to wake up and finally head to Cherapunji. The taxi driver decided to remind me of that old Indian Standard Time joke. [...]

We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting to launch Felis Creations’ own online nature and wildlife channel for a while, but there was always a good excuse to not launch it… no time, not enough content, yadayadayada… But now with 2010 having rolled in, we figured there’s no point in simply waiting. So here it [...]

JAN 08, 2009. FRIDAY. BANDIPUR NATIONAL PARK On a nice bright afternoon, I set out at 4pm on a game ride. We took the Reception Road and with in 5 mins of being on the game ride, my guide received a phone call that another group had seen a tiger on the other side of [...]

DEC 18TH 2009, FRIDAY. Its over 6 months since having gone out into the jungles or using  my cameras. Work and extended monsoon has kept me away from the jungles and I am very glad to be in the outdoors again. A quick trip in the weekend to Bandipur and Nagarhole. It was the first [...]

It’s the weekend coming up and I’m sure everyone has one thing on their mind – to Get Away… Away from the hustle and bustle of traffic and the maze of bureaucracy and hypocrisy… and go far enough away to not have to deal with any of it… well, at least for the weekend. Enter [...]

Marketing hasn’t been our strongest forte, but we do finally have the coffee-table book about India’s Western Ghats available for purchase from Amazon. If you know anyone who may be interested in purchasing a copy please do forward this link on to them and if you do buy a book from the store, please do [...]

For those of you in the United States, check out NG channel this Saturday at 7PM and watch King Cobras from the comfort and safety of your television screens! We spent nearly a year documenting the natural history and behavior of King Cobras in the wild at Agumbe. Our base camp – Agumbe Rainforest Research [...]

I can’t believe that it’s already been two months since I left India. I haven’t made any blog updates and hardly any FB updates either! This doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing anything, it just means that too much is going on that I wouldn’t even know where to start… The highlight of my visit [...]

British Library, Bangalore Invites you to the screening of two films by Sandesh Kadur BBC Natural World: Mountains of the Monsoon 22 June 2009, Monday 6:30 PM Although less than 10% of the Western Ghats remain untouched, these mountains are one of the most biologically diverse places left on the planet. Their unique beauty and [...]

It was the end of nearly three weeks of exploring the remotest corners of the northeast India and I had traveled along the Siang River to the Indo-china border and from there drove far south and East to visit some remote tribal cultures along the Indo-burma border. Tired and exhausted I decided to have a [...]