This week’s “Blogger of the week” is Kalyan Varma. Kalyan is a member of Nighi Communities under “Misc” category. He is a wild life photographer and an Information Technology expert. He was awarded the Wildlife Photographer of the Year - 2005.

“When I was a small kid, I watched The Jungle Book and it was love at first sight. I wanted to grow up to be Mowgli and play with Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa etc like many other kids do. I would give up sweet sunday morning sleep to watch the National Geographic specials that used to air on National Television before we had Animal Planet and NGC on our television sets. The dream eventually came true.

In 2004, I started to visit forests quite often and quickly realized, wildlife photography was something that I loved from the bottom of my heart and it was a dream combination of two of my biggest passions in life. Towards the end of 2004, I went through the JLR Naturalist Training course where I met Sarath, who offered me a job at JLR as I was on a sabbatical from work. He said there was an opening for a naturalist at BR Hills and he offered me a deal where I would work there for few weeks in exchange for free food and accommodation without any salary. I gave up my big-paying job at a big-dot-com company and decided to try this for a while. ” – Read More

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