Sanctuary Asia

The Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s flagship Sanctuary Asia magazine founded and edited by Bittu Sahgal has been in continuous publication since 1981 and remains India's leading and best-loved magazine in its genre. Browse through select articles from our past issues.
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Meet Sumit Sen
Ex-banker, financial whiz, creator of www.kolkatabirds.com and digital photography aficionado speaks to Bittu Sahgal about birds, tigers and the love of nature

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Meet Sunjoy Monga
He was born in Masjid Bunder, one of Mumbai’s most congested localities adjacent to the docks and his earliest involvement with birds was to imitate the gut

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Meet Farooq Issa
Owner of the famed ‘Phillips - European and Oriental Art’ that was established in 1860, Farooq Issa is a natural history aficionado and a keeper of India’s

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Meet Shekar Dattatri
Born in Chennai, to a supportive middle-class family, Shekar’s first tryst with nature began in his backyard. It was a tiny garden that housed a large neem tr

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Meet Belinda Wright
She is the Executive Director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) and has lived in India all her life. Working with state forest and police off

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Blake’s World
February 2005:To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the Palm of your Hand, And Eternity in an Hour.

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Meet Pradyut Bordoloi
He has the distinction of being one of the few Indian politicians who is popular both with activists and the establishment. Young, dynamic and in a hurry to g

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Meet K.M.Chinnappa
Born in 1941 to an armed forces family, K.M.Chinnappa is the quintessential wildlife protector. A true son of the soil, his father was a soldier who took to f

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Meet Ashok Khot
The spate of leopard attacks on humans living around the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Mumbai, was splashed across the national media in the month of

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Meet Dilip Khatau
Dilip Khatau is a globe trotter whose heart has never quite moved away from India. His ancestral home is Kutchh and his almost singular purpose in life today

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Meet Arvind Kumar Chalasani
He treks the hills of Dehradun, sees the universe in a fallen leaf and looks at children as the owners of a planet that adults seem bent on sullying. A natu

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Meet Ravi Singh
August 2003: Ravi Singh exudes energy. He also communicates an infectious love for the outdoors and is in his element when out birding. Saving India’s natural

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