Antara Kulkarni
I’ve been very lucky to have an unconventional childhood - while my friends went to hill stations or for vacations abroad, I often spent my school holidays exploring the forests of India. My parents, both...
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Researchers’ Corner
Ritobroto Chanda
It was the summer of 2017, and I was high in the Eastern Himalayas, deep inside Khangchendzonga National Park in Sikkim. I had joined an expedition with Dr. Trevor Price from the University of Chicago and his...
Krishnandu Sarkar
This one date’s more than a decade ago. I was posted in North Kashmir. The task was simple – to carry out reconnaissance to establish a base. I had settled on a location amidst the Pine Forest at an altitude...
Aditya Ganesh
Birds have marked many significant moments in my life, but one of the most memorable comes from a field season studying owls. At the time, I was working with a changing group of interns; essentially anyone...
Aishwarya Laghate
The Shadow Game: How Vultures Found Me Some of my strongest memories from those years are not just of vultures themselves, but of the people I met because of them. Curious children on trains who wanted to...
Debangini Ray
It was one midnight after New Year’s, and the peri-urbanscape of Kodigehalli, Bengaluru, was in pin-drop silence. Not a single leaf stirred. I was standing on my third-floor rooftop terrace, happily tracing...
Hrishikesh Karandikar
I was fourteen, and I almost didn't go. My mom and her friends had organised a day trip somewhere on the outskirts of the city. The kind of outing where the kids are mostly an accessory to the adults' ‘chai...
Sidharth Srinivasan
One of my most memorable experiences comes from Kamlang, a little-known tiger reserve in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh. In 2020, when the COVID pandemic stranded me there, I found myself birding constantly....
Neeraj Mahar
This is how my love for birds and nature took shape… View of Mighty Nandadevi from my hometown, Pithoragarh I hail from the hill district of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, where growing up amidst forests and...
Ankita Das
While surveying bird watching trails in the Govind landscape, Uttarakhand, under the SECUREHimalayaProject, one of the most enriching experiences I had was while trekking to the Kuin Dibri waterfall at...
Sarbasis Dutta
For a wildlife researcher, beyond the rigour of protocols, transects, and data sheets, there exists a quiet, almost sacred thrill, one that comes with encountering a species listed on the IUCN Red List. It is...
Divyapriya Chandrasekaran
During my initial months at the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History (SACON) in 2013, I went birding daily. On one such morning, I heard a new bird call. As I was beginning to learn the...