Mumbai Coastal Road

Presenting Mumbai's coastal road, yet another environmental disaster in the making. Other than marine life, artisanal fishing communities such as the Kolis are the project's worst victims.

Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-day.

Remora Underwater Cabs

Are you a Remora looking for an underwater cab? Download the U-cab app and choose from a variety of options- Tiger Shark sedans to Manta Ray minis! Select the 'Volunteer to Clean Cab' option for shared economic rides. 

Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Vote Green with the Fire tailed Myzornis

Let's vote for a government that is environmentally accountable; a government that approaches development with sustainability as its core principle; a government that prioritizes environment conservation over myopic economic booms. Let's vote green with the Fire-tailed Myzornis!

From my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Valparai Landscape and Habitats

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The Valparai Plateau in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district, is unique in many ways. Located in the Anamalai Hill range of the Western Ghats, the plateau is largely owned by private tea and coffee estates. And yet, Valparai is home to a wide variety of endemic and endangered fauna. Rainforest fragments interconnected by tracts passing through agricultural estates provide habitats and corridors for Asian Elephants, Gaurs, Lion-tailed Macaques and small carnivores, while offering nesting spaces to Great Hornbills, Malabar Grey Honrbills, the endemic White-bellied Shortwing, and a variety of herpetofauna and insects. 

Commissioned by the Nature Conservation Foundation, I visited Valparai in December 2017 over this project, visiting NCF's field sites, guided by two of my most admired people in ecology- Dr. Divya Mudappa and Dr. TR Shankar Raman. NCF has been doing extensive and exemplary work in the region, spanning a range of projects such as rainforest regeneration, providing a safe passage for elephants, monitoring hornbill nests, and conserving Lion-tailed Macaques. The project gave me a chance not only to witness the landscape in greater detail, but also learn from the two veterans, as well as Dr. M Ananda Kumar, whose work has been instrumental in reducing human-elephant conflict in the region. Read more about NCF's work here. 

NCF has a beautiful interpretation centre at Iyerpadi, Valparai, where two of my projects (including this illustration) are up for display. Make sure you visit the centre the next time you're here; not just because it has beautiful artwork and merchandise but also because it's a great place to see the rare Nilgiri Marten! 

Wild Bhutan

I'm just back from my second trip to Bhutan and could not resist the temptation of drawing wildlife from this wonderland again! Here's a collage of Bhutan's wildlife- 22 of the myriad of wild fauna found in the Cloud Kingdom.

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Note that this list is far from accurate or complete, but does cover some of the country's most prominent fauna, such as its national animal, the Golden Takin; its national bird, the Common Raven; the Black-necked Crane, an important bird in Bhutanese folklore, and so on. For a more comprehensive list and distribution of the wildlife of Bhutan, please go through my 2016 project with WWF Bhutan, The Wildlife Map of Bhutan.

Migration and Body Fat

It's summer and the winter migrants are on their way back to their wintering grounds, making arduous journeys across some of the harshest terrain! May India's fatty diet sustain each one of them on their incredible journey. Here's a cartoon from my column with Roundglass Sustain, dedicated to a winter visitor frequenting my backyard, the Grey Wagtail, that flies in all the way from the Himalayas.

Meet the Painted Bat

Meet India's most beautiful bat, the Painted Bat! Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

The Wild Indian Spring

What's your favourite thing about the wild Indian spring? Mine is watching Rosy Starlings going crazy about blooming Bombax flowers!

The comic appears in my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Friendly Neighbourhood Tree

How well do you know your friendly neighbourhood tree? The comic appears in my column with the Hindu Sunday

Join Seasonwatch's 'Spring Tree Quest' (15th to 18th March) and record casual observations of your favourite tree on the Seasonwatch app. While this is one great way of observing and learning more about your neighbourhood trees, it is also a unique citizen science programme that enables scientists to record seasonal changes in trees using your data!

The Great Indian Busted

The last Sunday, Green Humour appeared in three Indian newspapers: other than my two weekly columns with Sunday Mid-Day and The Hindu, in a wildlife special edition of Indian Express, where this very grumpy Great Indian Bustard greeted his readers. While Indian Express published the above version of the comic, I prefer the angrier version:

Ecological Repercussions of the US Mexico Border Wall

It's not just national integrity that is at stake in the USA. Here's a very basic deconstruction of Trump's disastrous border wall from my column with The Hindu Sunday.

Environmental Costs of an Indo Pak War

This World Wildlife Day, a Hangul, Kashmir's state animal, briefs you about some of the environmental costs of an Indo-Pak border war. The comic appears in my column with Sunday Mid-Day.