Mahua Season

It's Mahua season in Indian forests! Cartoon for The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Tigers and their Favourite Prey

Tigers and their favourite prey. A World Tiger Day special for DW Environment. 

The European Hamster in Ukraine

The critically endangered European Hamster, along with other grassland specialists like the Steppe Marmot, the Fallow Deer and the Kulan, are now on a mission to rewild Ukraine’s steppes. The reintroduction effort, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hopes to keep a legacy of conservation going in the country against the odds.

Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

COP 27 and COP 15

A Moose from Canada and a Dorcas Gazelle from Egypt discuss COP Biodiversity and COP 27 on Nature TV News. Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Here's another cartoon about why COP Biodiversity should matter to us, available royalty free on my Cartoonstock gallery. 

Loktak Lake

The phumdis of Manipur's iconic Loktak Lake are under threat from a mega tourism project. Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Indian Mammals that are Fossil Fuels

Some Indian mammals that are fossil fuels. Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine, NOT available as an NFT. 

Alarm Calls for the Government

As protests against the ruling government heat up across the country, here's a reminder of one of the ways it has tampered with the constitution for years now. Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Man versus Deer

Man versus deer. From my column with Roundglass Sustain.

Biological Breakthroughs 2018

Before the year ends, let's take a moment to appreciate science. These are just some of the many discoveries made in India this year, but they go on to show how many surprises India still holds both for science and for us. If you notice, all the species are from some of the most fragile ecosystems- rainforests of the Western Ghats and the North-east. If more such treasures are to be unearthed, these hotspots will have to be protected from reckless development at any cost.

The comic appears in The Hindu (main) today, marking my debut with the paper.

Some social mammals breastfeeding their young

A comic to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. Let's use our large cerebral cortices a bit more wisely.

Mothers' Day 2018

Go pay your mom a compliment this Mothers' Day! The comic is from my column with Sunday Mid-Day. Prints available on my webstore here.

Bhoorsingh the Barasingha Returns

In a continued series of commissions for Kanha Tiger Reserve (under Field Director Mr. Sanjay Shukla), I created a few more comics, posters and artwork with the park mascot Bhoorsingh the Barasingha-

A Day in the Life of Bhoorsingh-

A Chronology of the life of Bhoorsingh-

A poster for the Kanha-Achanakmar corridor walk, conducted by the park management and WWF India-

Artwork for a playschool run by the forest department, which is named after Bhoorsingh-

A 'selfie canvas' set to be installed at tourist stops in the national park-

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Thanks once again to Mr. Sanjay Shukla for his continued association with Green Humour, and for using artwork so extensively to promote Kanha!

Kaziranga Floods

On the floods in Kaziranga from my column with Mid-Day today. A big thanks to all the heroes from the Forest Department and the various NGOs in Assam, working to ease the conflict between people and stranded animals.

Kameng Raft Fall

On World Cartoonists' Day, I pay tribute to my muse, and the best cartoonist herself, Nature! Here's a comic based on a true incident, from earlier this year, in Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh. Thanks to my companions on the raft, Kime Rambia, Pratibha Riswadkar and Wangta for saving my life as well as giving me this experience, and to my friend Nandini Velho for making the trip happen. The comic appears on Nature in Focus today.

Here's a picture of me with the crew moments before I fell off the raft! (With me are the dynamic Range Officer Kime Rambia, and field biologist Pratibha Riswadkar).

Kanha Tiger Reserve- an illustrated map

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I've often referred to Kanha Tiger Reserve as the 'Mother of Indian Forests', for the simple reason that its majesty and grandeur make for a complete Indian forest experience. The true magic of the Central Indian wilderness is here in Kanha's lush meadows and evergreen Sal forests.

This February, commissioned by Mr. Sanjay Shukla (Field Director of Kanha), the Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh, and the Saving Tiger Society, I travelled to Kanha gathering references for drawing an illustrated map of the park. The map has over 50 species of fauna found in the park, along with illustrations depicting the life of the Baiga tribe, that lives around the park. Here are some snippets from the map- 

Tha Asian Paradise Flycatcher- Madhya Pradesh's state bird, perches proudly over the compass of the map.

Some of the birds found in Kanha

Some mammals found in Kanha

Some well-known trees from Kanha. The evergreen Sal is what makes Kanha unique compared to most other deciduous forests in Central India.

The Baiga people of Kanha

A mother Northern Plains Langur carries her baby on her tummy

Kanha's pride- the endemic Hardground Barasingha

A tigress with her cubs. Inspired by a family of five tigers I met in the Mukki range of Kanha TR

A Grey Hornbill feeding his family- a female who has locked herself and her chick up in a tree hollow, to escape predation while nesting!

A Sloth Bear climbs a Crocodile Bark tree for raiding a beehive.

Three wise vultures- (from left) the Long-billed, the Red-headed and the White-backed Vulture. Kanha is home to four more species- the Eurasian Griffon, the Himalayan Griffon and the Cinereous and the Egyptian Vultures.

A pack of Dholes chasing a Chital through the meadows

Baiga dancers and musicians

Baiga women are known for their tattoos, that cover nearly the entire body! One of the illustrations briefly demonstrates the process.

The map will soon be a part of the interpretation centre at Kanha, as well as a coffee table book that is being produced by the forest department. A huge thanks to Mr. Shukla, firstly for having the vision to use artwork so extensively for promoting the park, and secondly for hosting me and helping me with constant inputs throughout the project. Thanks also to Mr. Indrajit Sengupta of the Saving Tiger Society for funding the project.

Bhoorsingh the Barasingha

Meet Bhoorsingh the Barasingha- the official mascot for Kanha National Park (Madhya Pradesh, India)! Bhoorsingh is proud of two things- of being endemic to Kanha, and of his twelve-tined antlers!

I visited Kanha last month over another project and met the dynamic Field Director of the park, Mr. Sanjay Shukla. A real visionary that he is, Mr. Shukla was full of creative ideas about creating awareness material for Kanha, and conversations with him led us to choose the Barasingha, an endemic variety of deer, as the park's mascot. 'Bhoor' in Hindi translates to 'tawny/golden' and 'Singh', 'antlers'.

Bhoorsingh will soon be featuring in more artwork, posters and merchandise for the park management at Kanha. The Kanha Bird Survey being conducted by the forest department and Bird Count India, begins today (17th to 20th March, 2017). And of course, Bhoorsingh is the brand ambassador for the event!

More posters and artwork with our twelve-tined friend coming right up. Stay 'tined' for more!

Some more illustrations done for Bhoorsingh 'selfie stands' that will be put up at tourist halt spots in Kanha.

Caribou Facts for Christmas

Here's some quick trivia on Caribou or Reindeer to wish all Green Humour readers a merry Christmas! The comic appears in my column with Mid-Day today.

Prints available on my webstore here.