Drawing Miss Kerala: A Queen from Childhood
In the streams of our village, we often saw small fish with a brown stripe running along their sides, the […]
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Keel-billed Toucan: Why It Is My Favourite Toucan
Over the last twenty years, photographing birds across Asia and Africa, I have kept returning to hornbills. Not exclusively. There
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Finding a Tempo Hanseat in a Bavarian Garage
“I can tell you one thing,” Martin’s father said, standing beside the truck with his hands in his pockets. “This
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The Bird That Romanticises Monsoon
Monsoon and birds have always seemed connected to me. A few days before the real rain arrives, the landscape changes
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Dragonflies that cross oceans on the monsoon winds.
Every monsoon, Globe Skimmers arrive in India on wind systems older than civilisation itself. The Dragonflies of My Childhood I
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Globe Skimmer Dragonfly Fact Sheet
A Traveller Smaller Than a Finger The Globe Skimmer (Pantala flavescens) migrates between Africa, India, and Asia using seasonal monsoon
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Trekking with Sketchbook: Visiting the Spiti Valley
A few years ago, during the second week of October, I was travelling through Himachal Pradesh on a bird photography
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My rendezvous with the Malabar Trogon
Trogons I have always found trogons a bit unusual. Not because they are rare, but because of how they behave.
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Why Urban Sketching Is Not About Perfection
I did this small sketch of a quiet house, the kind you might walk past without stopping. A simple structure,
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