No to dolphinariums

One on dolphinariums from my fortnightly weekend column in today's The Hindu's BLink. 

The Tailorbird

Monsoon is here and with it, the nesting season of the tailorbird! This little green dweller of the bushes is a bundle of energy, and anyone who has seen the song and dance of the tailor would agree with me. But what the tailorbird is really famous for, is its skilfully 'sewn' nest. The tiny craftsman first punches a series of holes in the chosen leaves, and then passes a lint through these holes, stitching them together to form a cup-shaped nest. Based on my own observations, the nest site is selected and the nest woven in such a way that it is nearly waterproof! It is of no surprise that Kipling chose to immortalize the tailorbird as his Jungle Book character, Darzee. 

The comic appeared in my column with The Hindu BLink here.

Endemics of the Western Ghats (ATREE-CEPF)

A poster illustrated for ATREE- CEPF with caricatures of the endemic fauna of the Western Ghats that the prolific Bangalore-based NGO funds research on. The illustrations were created for a workshop conducted by ATREE in June 2015, and were printed and used as posters and coffee mugs. Working on these illustrations gave me a chance to get to know some animals like the Cave Catfish, the Kondana Bush Rat and the Miss Kerala Fish, that I had never heard of before! The lot also includes some elusive, spectacular and even bizarre creatures like the Brown Palm Civet, the Salim Ali's Fruit Bat, the Yellow Bush Frog, the Malabar Gliding Frog, the Nilgiri Langur, the Grizzled Giant Squirrel, the White-bellied Shortwing, the Nilgiri Laughingthrush, the Nilgiri Marten, the Nilgiri Tahr, the Nilgiri Woodpigeon, the Indian Purple Frog and the Lion-tailed Macaque.

(Canvas for the coffee mug)

A big thanks to Dr. Bhaskar Acharya for commissioning me for the project and for associating me with CEPF and ATREE!

Are You Game?

A cartoon on game hunting that appeared on my Gocomics page here.

Why are grasslands important?

A comic about the importance of grasslands that appeared in my fortnightly with The Hindu BLink earlier this month. I also released a print of it at my second solo exhibition in Hyderabad last week.

If you're wondering what the animals in the second frame are- they're the Great Indian Bustard, the Hispid Hare and the Pygmy Hog- all grassland dependent, critically endangered species.