Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) is organising a very special event on conservation in Chennai. We are gathering the lawyers and judges of the state make them sit and understand the wildlife and the conservation issues. Since most of these issues are handled at court level, this is a very rare chance to sensitise the policy makers. Not that they do not know the issues, but are surely not aware of the field realities of what works and what does not. The leopard issue will surely be on top of the priority. The photo exhibit is a showcase of Tamil Nadu’s…

Chamundi hill which is bang in the middle of the lovely Mysore city is a safe sanctuary for lot of wildlife. A lot of my friends from India Nature Watch mysore almost go there every weekend to photograph the wildlife and you can see the whole collection here and here. Its known not only for its great bird diversity but also a healthy population of leopards. If you see the link above, a lot of people have been photographing this lovely leopard even till few weeks ago… totally peaceful in its habitat. Yesterday one of these leopards came onto a…

After almost a year of inactivity, I’m back yo !

There area few seats left for this weekends photography workshop here in Bangalore. If you are interested, do drop me a line right away as the classes are almost full again till the year end.

For the last month or so, I have been busy with the wedding in my family. Its my only sister Satya’s marriage. The wedding happened the day before in Vizag in the traditional south indian style. After the wedding my sister left with the new family and she will move to singapore soon to settle down there. I have had a very funny relationship with my sister. Till I was 16 years old, we were moving places every 2 years or so and since moving is tough on your friendships, we had a very special relationship. (Btw she is about…

Heh.

This is the second time this week I’m up till 4am and still not able to sleep. I had this issue a while back and looks like its acting up on me again.

I voted last week. It was an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). It does not have a paper trail. Something smelled fishy. I do not trust machines. Shudder

The photograph I posted yesterday was the Draco, The Flying Lizard. Click here to see the lizard marked out in the bark. These small lizards live in trees and are found along the Western Ghats. They are masters of Camouflage and if they are sitting on a bark without moving, its almost impossible to find them. On land they are clumsy and easy victims for predators. When scared, they run up a tree. When threatened, they leap off the tree. With their “wings” stretched out, these long-tailed, lightly built lizards glide gracefully. The wings act like parachutes. They gently land…

There really is a lizard sitting on this bark Answer : You can compare the original with this one to find the lizard. Try to find it yourself before you look into this link though.