Two women in traditional Indian attire, rural setting.

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Kabini’s Great Heist

Published on: 13/07/2026 |Contributors: Preanka Rao & Vikram Nanjappa

The only proposition that drives me from safari to safari is this: expect the unexpected. No Naturalist or Guide promises a sighting, and that is perhaps how it should be. The forest doesn’t owe us at all. But we owe much of our life lessons to it.

Kalahari Myth & Magic: Folklore from the Desert

Published on: 06/07/2026 |Contributors: Sarah Kingdom

The first time I set foot in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), I was struck not only by its vastness but by its silence. Imagine 52,000 square kilometres of open land, the largest, most remotely situated reserve in Southern Africa and the second largest wildlife reserve in the world, where the horizon seems to go on forever.

The Horses That Run for a Goddess: Kudure vésha at the Kavadi Bhagavathi Temple, Kodagu

Published on: 01/07/2026 |Contributors: Sourabha Rao & Santosh Saligram

Kudure vésha (horse costume) has a profound, layered significance in the Karnataka folk-religious landscape. It appears visually simple, but what makes it powerful is precisely that economy: a human body animated into a horse, moving through devotion, rivalry, endurance and ritual memory. In Kodagu, the Kavadi Bhagavathi Temple has its own version of the kudure vésha worn by four young men from four ‘keri’s (neighbourhoods) – four horses made of cloth, sweat and faith.