Dicky Singh | Solo Show | Oddbird Theatre | 2nd-8th February 2018 | 11 am to 7 pm daily Curator: Laura Williams – Art 18|21 A photography exhibition of Dicky Singh, one of India’s most celebrated wildlife photographers and conservationists Venue: Oddbird Theatre, Dhan Mill Compound, 100 Feet Road, Chattarpur, New Delhi Contact: Laura Williams:…
Someone rightly said that “a camel is a horse designed by a committee.” Recently I got a “report of Tiger Mortality (T30)” which is a hilarious read, but for the fact that it was about a wild tigress dying in Ranthambhore. A scan of the report is there at the end of this post. On…
On the morning of 7th May 2008, we entered Ranthambhore national park on a safari. I was with my photography guru – Andy Rouse from UK. Soon enough we spotted T 17 hiding in a patch of grass on top of a low hill. She was eyeing a small herd of Spotted Deer at the…
Warning: Graphic images 8th May 2015 – Ranthambhore national park I, Aditya Singh, was on a safari in Ranthambhore national park with my friend Dharmendra Khandal of Tiger Watch. At around 18:05 hours we were parked near a lake when we heard a wireless message in a Forest Department jeep that was parked next…
The year 2014 can be summed up for me in twenty pictures. Each one of thees pictures represents a photography trip that I did or a series of safaris that I did in Ranthambhore national park, where we live. Hope 2015 turns out as good for me.
It looks like its close to the end of the road for Ranthambhore National Park’s iconic tigress T 16 or Machali. There are many tales about her and some of them are true. She was born in the monsoon months of 1997, one of the three sisters, whose mother was known as Machali. When Colin…
Since the Ranthambhore tiger reserve reopened for visitors on 1st October 2013, according to us there have been sightings of 25 different adults / sub-adult tigers and four or five (not sure again) small cubs in the entire tourism zone. Not bad at all. Two of thees adults are in the recently opened zone 10. The…
My name is Aditya Singh and my close friends call me Dicky. I have had two contrasting lives till now and the change took place around 1997. Before that I was a regular guy whose father was in the army. We were brought up with a strong dose of hostel life and ended up being…
A Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) was sighted and photographed for the first time in the plains of India. A keen birder from Delhi Wing Commander Vijay Sethi photographed it on the 22nd and 23rd May 2010. He found the bird near Malik Talao in the heart of the park. He was accompanied by local naturalist…
At around 1000 hours in the morning the Deputy Field Director of Ranthambhore national park (RS Shekhawat) called me and asked me to reach the Tadla chowki (or Forest Guard House) near Banas river as soon as possible, along with MD Parasher. He told me that the two “Chiroli cubs” were dead, probably poisoned and…