“As a child, I was captivated by the image of a giant prehistoric dragonfly soaring across ancient skies, its wings stirring the dust of forgotten worlds. That fascination, first sparked by a Discovery Channel documentary, grew into a lifelong curiosity that took me from the mango groves of my village in southern India to the marshlands of Chennai and the floodplains of the Himalayas. Although I never became a paleontologist, my journey with dragonflies — these relics of deep

It was during one of those golden-hour wanderings that it happened—a herd of deer emerged, gliding through the forest in the amber light. The sight of so many deer moving together, shimmering in the evening sun, was nothing short of cinematic. It felt like I had stepped into a live National Geographic film.