Hey everyone! I'm super excited to share my recent birding adventure with you all. On March 30th, 2024, my brother Souranil (@souranil.de), a total Himalayan Monal fanatic, and I, headed to Chopta, [Read more...]
Guess what I was up to in early June 2025? I flew all the way from Kolkata to Dibrugarh, Assam, to fulfill a dream: photographing the incredibly shy and stunning Austen's Brown Hornbill in Dehing [Read more...]
Chasing the Crimson: My Quest to Photograph the Red Munia Hey everyone! If you know me, you know I'm obsessed with birds! I've been trying to get some decent shots of the stunning Red Munia for ages. [Read more...]
TL;DR: Hoolock Gibbons in India are the only ape species in the country, and are endangered. They could be found in the North Eastern state of Assam. This blog post has photographs, videos, and some [Read more...]
Rabindranath Tagore travelled the world and while he did, he delivered speeches, had conversations with the who's who of the world; and most importantly, he made journal entries, wrote letters to [Read more...]
I’ve known about the fireflies of the western ghats for over a decade now. I have promoted the natural spectacle very proactively within my friend circle but personally could never manage time to see [Read more...]
The Unexpected Journey Begins It was a sweltering, humid day in Mumbai, the kind where the sun blazes fiercely and the air feels like a thick, oppressive blanket. I went to Mumbai for some personal [Read more...]
Parmadan requires no introduction to a birding enthusiast in Calcutta, especially after this year. I guess everybody who could crawl, walk, drive, or board a train, has been to the Parmadan forest in [Read more...]
Latpanchar is a small village near Sittong, in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. While these areas are gaining popularity in the birding circuits in Calcutta, it is relatively lesser explored [Read more...]
Kuldiha is located in the Balasore district of Odisha, next to West Bengal. It takes around 4 hours to drive from Bhubaneshwar and when Souranil asked if I would wish to join him and his friends on a [Read more...]