May 23rd, A business trip on which I saw Tigers…still cant stop talking about it!! A business meeting was planned at BEL, Ghaziabad for the 25th May morning. Not wanting to go on a day trip to Delhi, I checked with Hitesh and Khan, if there was anything to do over the weekend. Lucky me! [...]

May 10th, Amazing 3 days in Agumbe Rainforest.  Starting at 3AM from Bangalore and a 7hr / 400 kms drive to Agumbe was not so tiring, when I got to see the King Cobra on a nest within 15mins of arriving at the site. Photographed and Filmed a King Cobra nesting (only females build the [...]

Here’s a quick video compressing six weeks and six thousand kilometers of mountainous terrain into two minutes! If you have a fast internet connection watch it on HD! Cheers, Sandesh

Secrets of the King Cobra is an unprecedented journey into the natural history of the wild King Cobra, following them into their world-revealing what they do, where they go, and who they interact with-when we are not around. And surprisingly, the people of India are very much a part of the story. Early evidence suggests [...]

May 2nd, My first Blog…and can’t be a better reason to Blog about. A fantastic weekend with Family (my mother, wife and daughter) and Cousins at Churikad Estate, Nagarhole. My family has been accompanying me on a few weekend trips to the South Indian forest for the last 6 years and my 5 year old, has been on [...]

OK, so now I’ve gotten way ahead of myself and I’ll have to compress a month’s worth of blogging into one post and probably the easiest way to do that would be to post a few pics – a picture says a thousand words doesn’t it?! The trip so far has been a blur as [...]

This is the story of the deer and the tiger… that neither the deer or I ever saw. It was my first day back at Kaziranga National Park in Assam. I was with Bani Saikia the ranger’s right hand man who took me on an amazing journey along the periphery of the park. Within the [...]

This hummingbird painting has been nominated a finalist in the World Birds category of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 competition !!!! The competition is believed to have attracted over 700 entries, out of which 122 paintings have been shortlisted amongst 14 different categories. Now, i got to send the original painting for [...]

In a new endeavour, Felis Creations is collaborating with the Gorgas Science Foundation to bring out a coffee-table book “Hummingbirds of the World” . This project has had a long history, but now is finally taking shape and coming to fruition. I have been involved in this project over the last year and am happy [...]