UNBELIEVABLE: Bandhavgarh - The Untold Story

India's Wildlife Parks Reopen: Which Reserves Open First and What to Expect

The forest that greets you in the first week of October at Kanha or Tadoba is not the same forest that closed in June. Four months of rain have done something to it. The grass stands shoulder-high in the meadows, the waterholes are full and ringed with fresh pugmarks, and…

Times Life · Nov 1

Project Tiger at Fifty: How India's Reserve Model Saved the Predator and Erased the Forest Dweller

The Count That Changed EverythingIn 1973, the All-India Tiger Census recorded fewer than 1,800 tigers across the country. The number was a shock, not because it was surprising to people who lived near forests, but because it was now official. Project Tiger launched that year under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,…

Times Life · Sep 30

How India Uses Camera Trapping to Identify Individual Tigers by Their Unique Stripe Patterns

No Two Stripes Are the SameA tiger's stripes are not just surface markings. They are set in the skin itself, the underlying pigmentation follows the same pattern as the fur above it, which means shaving a tiger would reveal the same design. Each animal's arrangement of stripes is unique: the…

Times Life · Sep 29

India Wildlife Safari Planning: What First-Timers Miss Before Booking a Tiger Reserve

The Permit System Will Confuse You the First TimeEvery national park in India divides its core zone into numbered safari zones, and each zone has a fixed daily quota of jeeps. Ranthambore, for instance, has six zones in its core area. Zones 1, 2, and 3 sit closer to the…

Times Life · Jul 10

6 Indian National Parks Beyond Ranthambore That Every Tiger and Wildlife Safari Fan Must Visit

Jim Corbett National Park, UttarakhandJim Corbett has been hosting tigers since 1936, which makes it the oldest national park in India and the site where Project Tiger was formally launched in 1973. The Dhikala zone, set inside a broad riverine grassland called the chaur, gives you the kind of unobstructed…

Times Life · Jul 10

Inside the Sundarbans: Why India's Tiger Mangrove Delta Is Beautiful and Deeply Unsettling

You arrive expecting wilderness. You find something watching you.The boat leaves Godkhali jetty before sunrise, and within twenty minutes the land you knew is gone. Not behind you, erased. The Sundarbans swallows its own edges. The waterways here do not behave like rivers; they branch and double back and end…

Times Life · Jul 9

Kaziranga in Assam Is the Wildlife Reserve India Has No Answer To, And the Rhino Is Why

The animal that stops you coldYou are sitting in an open jeep on a dirt track through tall elephant grass when the rhino appears. Not far away. Not behind a fence. Close enough that you can see the texture of its armoured skin, the way its small eyes register you…

Times Life · Jul 8

BTR management issues show-cause notice to driver

Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) Management issued a show cause notice to a gypsy driver and a guide after a purported video of them having a booze party with tourists in the vehicle itself during safari surfaced, Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Jan 20, 2025

Explore India’s wild side with these luxury wildlife safaris

Explore India's wild side with luxury safari experiences in national parks, offering wildlife encounters and bespoke adventures.

The Hindu · Mar 28, 2024

Caves of Bandhavgarh not Buddhist, says Ashoka University Professor Nayanjot Lahiri

These structures in Madhya Pradesh were created mainly by men of commerce and craftspeople, and very occasionally by kings, says Prof. Lahiri

The Hindu · Oct 5, 2022