In January 2002, we brought all our young fundraising recruiters from Mumbai into and as a full part of  Greenpeace rather than as employees of an outsourced marketing agency. We managed to bring to ourselves a sense of equality within the organisation by naming the division "Supporter Campaigns" and gave it our best to flesh...Read More

Dan Krajewski, Skipper and Owner of the F/V Katherine-S (a Salmon Purse-Seiner in Alaska) is a man I grew very fond of, in the few months that I worked on his boat. I had hired on as Deckhand-cum-Cook. Commercial fishermen work hard and eat well. One of the perks of the job. The only problem...Read More

A little more than 33 years ago, sometime in early 1988, I was grinding through my Masters degree in Zoology at the Madras Christian College. The big news was that the Tamilnadu Forest Department was planning to shut down all five of their Olive Ridley Sea Turtle hatcheries on the Chennai (then Madras) coast. For...Read More

Other stories, days off, bathing and laundry, the potlatch, the strip, the coffee shop, the 4th of July celebrations, the Californians, saying Goodbye. Bella Bella. God’s Pocket.Read More

Salmon migration, the commercial fishing industry, Purse-seining , the competition, the process, the challenges, the successes and pitfalls, the broom.Read More

Learning my way around the Kathrine-S and her crew. Helping get everything ready to head out to Alaska. My contract and early cooking fuckups. The inside passage, sea-sickness, being a greenhorn, the watches, reaching Ketchikan.Read More

The struggle of finally calling it quits on academia, the decision to return home and the need for the money for it. A trip across the US to Seattle and the frustration of trying to land a deckhands job on a boat there. The day my luck changed when finally I landed a berth on...Read More

An interesting journey without destination, without itinerary and without more the basic seed plan. DreamCatcher used to host small Groups of 4 – 5 people traveling in a comfortable Jeep equipped with sufficient camping gear. The Group decided whether to head for the hills or into the jungles: to cook by the river eat at...Read More

A long weekend in the wilderness with a bunch of friends, sometime around 1999-2000. A very interesting account of a visit to a remarkable series of hills near Madras ” (then Madras Presidency) was published in the Madras journal in 1836 by Colonel Montieth of the Madras Engineers and republished more than a hundred years...Read More

A long time ago, we operated a corporate 4-day “outward bound” camp near a sheep farm at Mannavanur in Kodaikanal, Tamilnadu. The land was beautiful with rolling grasslands, patches of Eucalyptus and a few village huts, out of sight, a little distance away. One morning, one of our clients, couldn’t find his nice new foreign-bought...Read More

Written during the BBC's land of the Tiger shoot by a dear friend who is no longer with us - Satya. I smile remembering the miles and good times we had. When DreamCatcher was very young, in its first year or two, Satya joined me, fresh out of Hotel Management school and we operated many...Read More

Dokpwé is a West African word that means “Communal Work Society” – a village that has many arms, many legs, one stomach and one heart. This Dokpwé, was an irregular publication, formed around a private group of people and a magazine – a conscious attempt to build bridges within our own diverse community. The publication...Read More

This was a project for Jungle Lodges & Resorts at their Bheemeshwari property on the Cauvery River in Karnataka. We researched, designed, built and and installed a self-guided nature trail, aimed at positively enhancing each visitor’s experience of the destination, beyond the immediately visible. Each trail were built as a story along a series of...Read More

The Earth Bazaar was a popular watering hole for people looking for alternatives in the the late nineties, a place where one could relax, dress down and just be. The spirit was largely informal, responsibility bringing in freedom. For a number of people the Earth Bazaar became a second home. By the standards of late-nineties...Read More

A friend of mine, Venkatesh “Minky” Rao drove 48-hours nonstop from Delhi to Bangalore in his dinky little maruti through the incredible sands of Rajasthan and the forests of Madhya Pradesh. The highlight was the majestic mist-shrouded Taj Mahal viewed from the banks of the Yamuna. Being a Tuesday, the crowds of tourists were thankfully...Read More