Two women in traditional Indian attire, rural setting.

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On the Trail of Botswana’s Zebras

Published on: 01/06/2026 |Contributors: Sarah Kingdom

Discovering Africa’s longest mammal migration in one of Botswana’s most remote and beautiful landscapes - As the sun dipped behind the horizon, we sat around the fire in Nxai Pan listening to jackals calling across the desert. Hyenas whooped in the distance, and above us the stars emerged one by one.

Birdwatching in Kabini

Published on: 25/05/2026 |Contributors: Preanka Roy & Vikram Nanjappa

Birdwatching as a sport requires patience, preparation and ethical conduct, in addition to a certain level of discipline and physical fitness. Early mornings and late afternoons until dusk are ideal for observation. During these periods, birds are known to actively feed and the light conditions are favorable for photography. Winter mist rising from the reservoir often creates magical high-key images and silhouettes of ospreys, geese and ducks against crimson skies.

A Meditation on the Yalis of Hampe

Published on: 18/05/2026 |Contributors: Sourabha Rao & Alok Ranjan

There are creatures you never encounter in the wild, and yet you feel you have seen them more intimately than any fleeting glimpse of fur or feather in a forest. You meet them in stone, sculpted into perplexing proportions that challenge our perceptions of anatomical possibilities and taxonomies. In Hampe, you find them emerging from pillars, caught as if in mid-motion, forever about to leap or bite or coil or unfurl. The Yalis. Or Vyalas or Shardulas as they are also referred to as. That is what we call them, but we seem to know so little about them.