Snippets From My Wildlife Experiences!

 There are some forests you visit… and then there are forests that quietly stay with you. Singalila is one of them. Located in West Bengal, along the India–Nepal border, Singalila National Park sits on the Singalila Ridge in the Eastern Himalayas. It is also the highest national park in West Bengal, offering stunning forest landscapes along with distant views of some of the world’s highest peaks. This is not a forest of big sightings or constant action. It is slow, calm, and gentle. Thick greenery all around, trees covered in moss, and then suddenly—white magnolias blooming like soft light. Patches of pink rhododendrons appear through the mist, adding colour but still keeping the silence intact. You don’t just see Singalila. You feel it. There is a kind of silence here that is not empty. It is full of life—you just have to notice it. A bird calling from far away, a slight movement in the trees, a feeling that something is there… even if you can’t see it. And somewhere in this fores...