Featured Wildlife Stories and Nature Photography

Fleeting sunsets often make me leave whatever I am doing. To watch one with a bird, its snake-like form silhouetted in the heart of the fading sun, is a profound experience. It feels as though God alone is the painter of such sublime beauty.

When the Blue Oakleaf butterfly opens its wings, it transforms from a perfect imitation of a dry leaf into a flamboyant beauty. This sudden flash of vivid blue in the Mumbai wilds is a moment of pure delirium, a testament to nature's love for disguise and revelation.

This is one of our most endangered primates, the Lion-tailed Macaque. The thick, silvery mane framing its face, sparkling with raindrops, gives it a uniquely "genius" look. Staring into those eyes, I feel a deep connection to the stories held within the ancient evergreen forests of the Western Ghats.

The speculum, a brightly colored patch on the secondary flight feathers, is a marvel of evolution. Here, a Spot-billed Duck reveals its iridescent green and blue speculum as it comes in for a landing. Capturing this flash of color is a study in the physics and artistry of bird flight.

For two years, I searched for this exact frame: a powerful beam of morning sun slicing through the jungle to illuminate a spider's web. In October 1996, I finally found it. This image, with its shadows and gleams, represents the soul of Mumbai’s peerless wilderness.

On a wintry day near Jaipur, I witnessed this grim chase. A pack of feral dogs had cornered a Nilgai, India’s largest antelope. This is a difficult but necessary story to tell, highlighting the rising threat that free-ranging dogs pose to our native wildlife, a conflict often overlooked.

This is the same patch of forest in Mumbai's National Park, but transformed by the monsoon. The arrival of water turns the dry, brown landscape into a vibrant, almost electric green. It is a powerful, yearly reminder of how water is the true elixir of life in our forests.