Rosefinches are the only birds that sing to me on bleak, icy, rimy ridges in the Himalayas. This one was gracious enough to keep me company as I dragged my weary self through a frozen 15,000-foot-high pass below the rugged Rajrambha.

This is my song.

Countless starlings of peace for those who are in pain

A chic male Neelam (Blue Sapphire) rests on a cool boulder in a Western Himalayan oak forest.
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The sinuous Spiti and her seabuckthorn-clad, sandpiper-dotted marshes

The high snows of Dremoshong blow a delicate mist into the mysterious realm of the mirgö [yeti], the elusive scratcher of fir and rhododendron barks!

I have cast my vote. The cedars are abuzz with grey bushchats.

The gentlest ones

The serene face of a young chital in a place of wholesome verdure

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A herd of Asian elephants roams the lush riparian grasslands of Dhikala in the Siwalik Hills of Kumaon.

A peacock on a tree

A tryst with a mighty wild swine

A chital visits a dry streambed for a mouthful of grass.

A mugger or marsh crocodile by the River Ramganga in the Siwalik Hills of Kumaon

Having forsaken its water-scarce home on the other side of the great sal forest, a herd of Asian elephants keenly explores the relatively moist grasslands of Dhikala by the Ramganga Reservoir.

Having entered the frenzied state of musth, a tuskless Asian bull elephant displays testosteroney aggression in the riparian grasslands of Dhikala.

Having entered the frenzied state of musth, a tuskless Asian bull elephant displays testosteroney aggression in the riparian grasslands of Dhikala.

A tuskless Asian bull elephant goes into musth and begins to secrete temporin whilst roaming the riparian grasslands of Dhikala in the Siwalik Hills of Kumaon.

A crimson knotweed blossom in the alpine meadow of Dolam, Garhwal