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I am a molecular biologist turned photographer focusing on natural history and science stories in Asia. I am either working on assignments in remote areas or traveling for my speaking engagements. I hope you enjoy visiting this site.

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A villager in Spiti valley brings his Yak back home from the open pastures:- The domestic yak is a long-haired domesticated bovid found in Asia. For the major part of the year, they are free-ranging but are secured and brought back to the villages ju

Snow Leopards keep patrolling their territory, and one of the ways they mark their land is by spraying urine and scent on stones. In this image, a Snow Leopard approaches a scent marking location early in the morning and triggers the camera trap to m

While documenting different aspects of these living root bridges, I was keen to photograph them in a unique light. The idea was to isolate these monumental bridges from the rainforest background that engulfs them.
After extensive research and advice

The urial, also known as the shapo, is a species ( Ovis Vignei) of the wild sheep. The urial inhabits western central Asia from the northeast of Iran and the west of Kazakhstan to Balochistan in Pakistan and the Ladakh regions in North India. Urial s

An old male snow leopard eats a domestic sheep killed during a snowstorm near a village in India's Spiti Valley. Studies done by scientists at @snowleopardtrust show that even in the presence of abundant wild prey like blue sheep and Ibex, snow leopa

For me, the most bizarre thing I have ever seen in a car was this full-grown Golden Eagle. I was heading to an expedition funded by @insidenatgeo with researchers from @snowleopardtrust in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, and our Kyrgyz collaborator stopp

Living Root Bridges: I spent a lot of time with Khasi people trying to understand their past by talking to them and reading about their genetic ancestry. It seems like, among approximately 220 tribes of north-east India, only Khasis speak an Austro-A

Living Root Bridges: 'As I walked across my first jing kieng jri, my mind darted this way and that, trying to find a comparable experience. No, it did not feel like crossing a concrete bridge. No, it did not feel like climbing a tree. Instead, it fel

Root Bridges in @npr : It's a delight to see this full story published on @npr. This story was partially funded by NatgeoSociety and was published in NatGeo magazine in December 2019 issue which you probably saw. Here is the larger story for your eye

In this image, Getuk Chomo, and her husband, Nawang Tashi, display their depredated goats. The couple stands next to a scarecrow, which they erected to ward off snow leopards near their home in India's Spiti Valley. "It worked for a while,"

Summer & winter Ibex: Asiatic Ibex is a species of true goats. They are extremely surefooted and can be often spotted in rugged regions. To escape predators, they are known to take refugee in precipitous and rugged regions. Studies show that a he

Snow Leopard in its humongous landscape: A Snow Leopard walks on a ridge in the late afternoon and looks at the camera trap while making its scrape mark. Snow leopards scrape their back legs in loose soil, leaving a small depression with a mound of s