World Photography Day: Capturing the beauty of the wild, in the wild

From the tigress at Kanha National park to the fearless cubs at Maasai Mara, Dr.Ramakanta Panda, Managing Director & Vice Chairman, Asian Heart Institute, and a leading cardiovascular thoracic surgeon

Aug 20, 2021, 11:00 IST1 min

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Flamingos in the Talawe Lake behind Seawood estates, my favourite place in Mumbai to go to whenever I have rare free time. Thanks to environmental supporters, these wetlands around Navi Mumbai, home to thousands of birds, will be preserved and not converted into a Golf Course.

Image by Dr. Ramakanta Panda

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It was worth waiting in the bitter cold all night at a waterhole to capture this beautiful Nyala, photographed at Zimanga, South Africa.

Image by Dr. Ramakanta Panda

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A peacock photographed at the Sariska National park, located in the Alwar area of Jaipur, Rajasthan."It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail.It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.” - Rabindranath Tagore

Image by Dr. Ramakanta Panda