To Jabu and Simba on their 4th birthday… Photos by Rohit Varma Friends, I find the word dog being used as a very derogatory term and our so called exalted civilisation that we are so proud about, still uses this term to denote something that is not worthy enough of...

To Zulu on her Sixth Birthday! It was a slightly nippy early April night, when we going to bed and your sleeping basket placed right next to us. You were new into our family. Shaka was in his basket getting ready to sleep too. We tucked you in after you refused a...

An Excerpt from: A King called Shaka… The next day started early. The car to take me and my business partner Gokul to Bandipur arrived early and we drove away towards our new home. Enroute on the highway it was quite uneventful except for the looks that Shaka gave me...

Dear Friends, I came across an article published by a friend of Dhole’s Den Research Foundation which we actively support. Mr. R.K. Rao has been active in deciding what is done under the aegis of the foundation. While we were discussing various programmes that we roll...

Dear Friends, Its been quite some time and you must be happy to see the blog in new colours and design.  Change being the only constant in our lives, we decided to give it a new look the website and the blog. And yes we are still working on it…:) Now getting back to...

For two weeks now my world is a room in our townhouse in Mysore. After a fall caused by a fit of anger that rose unnecessarily from the shallowness of an instant in which an employee stood there for whatever reason, unwilling to perform with 100%, I had just wanted to...

A young spirited guest Iraaj Mohan who stayed with us last month had the following to write back about us. I am quoting him and putting some images of him walking with our hound Jabu.  "The stay of my family and I in Dhole’s Den was remarkable. I feel this resort in...

23rd October is a special day for me. We celebrate Shaka turning a year older. This year he would have turned 9 in dogs’ years and 63 if he had been human. This is a letter to him knowing well he couldn’t have read the type and only saw it in my eyes and today when...

Dear Friends, We have at our den, guests big and small. Most of the guests whom I regularly meet mention to me that our staff is very friendly and they aren’t the usual hotel personnel with a measured gait, a smile that even a ‘donkey’ can deliver but with warmth in ...

To Zulu on her ninth birthday…. My daughter, I take the liberty to address you so as there are people who understand the underlying feeling in my calling you the daughter of the house and because there are people who vehemently oppose calling you so. My letter to you...