Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Got back yesterday from a short weekend trip to BR hills and things sure are changing over there. Remember the monkey that always greets me by jumping on my shoulder as soon as I go there ? This time it did the same as usual. However, a funny incident happened. I usually feed bread crumbs or pieces of banana to these monkeys. This chap was very pissed that I was giving him small piece by piece and not the whole thing at once. So he holds my hair and pulls it. After giving him a small bit, he was not…

Praying Mantis at Kabini I’ve finally managed to process all my Kabini trip photographs. I’ve spent about 4 days there few weeks ago and have had one of the best elephant sightings of my life. I also used my studio flash equipment to shoot some macro after a long time. My favorite shot is the praying mantis above. They are masters at giving out those lovely expressions

I just love to mix work and pleasure trips. I had work last night in Mumbai and I have work again in Delhi mid next week. So I decided I’ll use this opportunity to explore some central india jungle. I’m currently camped in Nagpur thanks to the lovely hospitality of swatisani and tariquesani. I’m off to Pench National Park this afternoon and will surface back after 3 days. Pench is not infested with tigers like Kanha and Bandhavgarh, but will try my luck at it anyway 🙂

While coming from Mysore, we suddenly saw a big Firefox logo pasted on a bus. We stopped the car and and stopped the bus which was about to leave and took these photographs. I wonder if the artist knew where the logo came from 🙂 This is the big logo behind the bus

Had an *excellent* trip to BR hills over the weekend. I was originally planning to spend the weekend in the city, but after the riots, I decided there was no point sticking around Bangalore. So drove off to my second home. Got to see 2 fully grown tigers together for a good amount of time Got to see porcupine – A first for me. The first steps towards my long term plans at BR hills took shape A long term project got finalized – related to BR hills again And now it’s monday morning.

So I finally setup the Photoblog. You can grab it directly via the RSS feed or if you are on LJ, you can add .

The naughtiest elephant from BR hills forest – Kyatha Btw, how do people like a ‘Photo of the day’ kinda post daily ?

How do people handle of spam on a public wiki ? The WildIndia Wiki has been getting a lot of spam the last few months. I have been cleaning them up regularly, but in the last one week, while I was out of town, there was a big flood of it and almost all the articles have been edited to include spam links. Check out the Recent Changes. I’d hate to make it moderated (is there a way to do it in mediawiki ?) and yet, want to keep the spam away. I know lot of you folks use Mediawiki…

If you’ve been on any of my security talks, you would have seen me poke holes in Indiatimes.com and with ICICI bank online banking site (both having shitloads of security features, all of which can be bypassed) . Now they have gotten together to launch a “Indiatimes ICICI Bank credit card” for secure online transactions. Oh Joy

Finally uploaded my Thattekad photographs over the weekend. Not too many photographs, but the Frogmouth was the highlight of the whole trip. Anyway thats about all the photographs I have for now. Don’t know when my next wildlife trip will happen, considering I have so much work piled up. Friends – Ashy Wood Swallows Thattekad, Kerala, 4 Mar 2006 While waiting for the guide to turn up, we were at a bridge and noticed an Ashy wood swallow on a wire. Another one came to join the first bird and after a while a third one joined them. All three…