Professor Bustard's English Lessons for Bureaucrats

Ornithologists and experts in India are already of the opinion that it is too late to save the Great Indian Bustard, a critically endangered bird. The bustard stands on the very brink of extinction today owing to our failure to conserve its grassland habitat and avert fragmentation. 

The comic appears in my weekend column with The Hinu BLink today.

The Song of the Tailorbird

A cartoon inspired by a chirpy little Tailorbird who flits about in my backyard everyday. The comic appeared in my weekend column with BLink last weekend.

Elephant Caddy

Violating the guidelines laid by the National Green Tribunal, Numaligarh Refinery Limited of Assam has constructed a 2 km long boundary wall bang in the middle of elephant migration route, posing a grave threat to the North-east Indian pachyderms. A golf course site lies adjacent to the NRL Township, right next to Kaziranga National Park. Deaths are already being reported of elephants desperately attempting to break through this wall.

Sign this petition to oppose the blocking of this age old elephant migration route-https://www.change.org/p/chief-minister-of-assam-minister-of-petroleum-amp-natural-gas-minister-of-environment-forests-amp-climate-change-take-down-the-wall-and-golf-course-that-blocks-the-elephants-ancient-migration-route-now?recruiter=38815979&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

The cartoon appears on my Gocomics page today.

Birds of Walterre

Here's a compilation I drew for eminent ornithologist, author and speaker Bikram Grewal's birding resort, Walterre, where I had the honour of spending a weekend birding and conversing with Mr. Grewal himself. Walterre is a grand and yet quaint abode, nestled in the hills of Garhwal, Uttarakhand. A collection of hundreds of natural history paintings collected painstakingly by Mr. Grewal (who is also a wildlife art historian) adorns the bungalow, and makes it a treasure trove for anyone inquisitive about natural history to explore. To add to that, the bird life around the place is nearly unmatched, with the rare Nepal Wren Babbler being a resident of Mr. Grewal's garden!
Visit http://www.walterre.in/ for more.

A Tiger Walks into a South Indian Restaurant

One from my weekend column in The Hindu BLink.

(For non-Indian readers- 'Sambar' is the name of the largest Indian deer, which is one of the tiger's favourite prey, and also the name for a preparation of lentils, which is South India's favourite food).

The Wildlife Map of India

115 animals, 46 biodiversity hotspots, one giant illustration- here is the Wildlife Map of India, out on Green Humour to mark the Wildlife Week!

For orders outside of India, prints can be purchased on my online store here.

For orders within India, visit my Happywagon store here.

Here are previews of different zones of the illustrated map-

North India and the Western Himalayas

East and North-east India

West and North-west India

Central India and the Deccan

The Western Ghats, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Lakshadweep Islands

The Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Get the map home, and have virtual safaris throughout the Indian wilderness! Happy Wildlife Week, folks!

(Please note that not all Tiger Reserves/ National Parks could be accommodated owing to space constraints)