The Artist
"Bandipur Tiger Reserve, one of the last real refuges for the wildlife in India and what I call home for the past 17 years is my source of inspiration. Though beset with problems, the natural diversity around me fascinates me and provides me the subjects that I paint and fight for in my role as a wildlife artist and conservationist. I firmly believe that with tolerance and compassion humans and animals can live side by side in harmony.
The following quotes by Mahatma Gandhi have been a constant reminder and source of inspiration to me in all my actions and projects in conserving the bio-diversity in the Indian Sub-continent and the “ Ecological Hotspot’’ that is the Western Ghats of which the Bandipur Tiger Reserve is a part of.
“Earth provides enough to
