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About Rohit Raina, born on April 15, 1974 to Shri A.K Raina and Smt Indira Raina.

With genes inherited from my fore-fathers hailing from the Kashmir Himalayas, the beauties of the natural landscape have always held me in a thrall. The best aphrodisiac and de-stress antidote for me has always been a visit to the forests. I still remember my first visit to the Gir forest in the summer of 1986. It was an experience that is hard to express…the wilderness, my first sighting of a pride of Lions and the calmness of the forest was overwhelming for me even at the tender age of twelve.

In 1992 came college, and with college came freedom, and with freedom came even more frequent trips to the Mountains / Forests and National parks. Every time one was bored with studies, which one may add was quite frequent, I was off to the hills in Himachal with my friends for a weekend getaway or at times to the Jim Corbett National Park in the Kumaon Hills, Uttarakhand.

After college, came the usual hustle bustle of picking up a job in the corporate sector and unfortunately am still stuck in this rat race since 1995. But stress of the city life and Corporate Work Culture has only helped to increase my passion and love for nature and this passion translated into my picking up a camera in 2000 and capturing what I love the most. This passion for photography came when I visited my relatives in Kenya, once in Kenya, a visit to the Maasai Mara is like dream realized, and to top it all I was there at the right time in the month of August at the peak of the migratory season for the animals of the game reserve.

For the last few years, I have been coming out with my own calendars with an aim to spread my message through this medium and to promote Wild Life Photography. The intent of this website is to introduce a larger section of the society to the beauty that lives in our Forests.