These pages represent the photography by "Tuliki Brothers" Atul Sharma & Anil Sharma via their individual, professional and personal experiences. It represents two journeys, spanning over five decades that have captured several facets of India. Earlier, on film and digitally, nowadays.

 

ATUL SHARMA (1962-2021)imageimage

Wildlife and Travel photojournalist 

Born in 1962 in New Delhi, India. He was among the best-known names in Indian travel photography. He had travelled across the length and breadth of nearly all Indian states and regions over the past 45 years. His mesmerizing images of Indian culture-life, wildlife, and natural landscapes have been published in renowned Indian publications like Hindustan Times, India Today Traveller, Outlook Magazine, Outlook Traveller, Shristi Magazine, Discover India, and Swagat Magazine. He also represented the Press Trust of India in the 1982 Asian Games, held in New Delhi, India.

 

ANIL SHARMA

Artist/Wildlife and Travel photojournalist

Born in 1955 in New Delhi, India. He worked for India Today Magazine as Associate Art Director for over 28 years. An accomplished painter and prolific photographer, he has been shooting nature, wildlife and places across India for the past 40 years. Specialise in shooting "Raptors". Presently, he is working on projects focused on birds and unknown or forgotten monuments of Delhi. He is also an exclusive contributor to Gettyimages and Alamy.

 

Email: sharmaanilji@gmail.com

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Mobile: +91-9971002639

 

Archaeology- Bhimbetka Rock Shelters (India) - The Bhimbetka, a UNESCO World Heritage Archaeological site of the Paleolithic, exhibiting the earliest traces of human life on the indian subcontinent.
Archaeology- Bhimbetka Rock Shelters (India)
Birds- Black Kite Milvus migrans (Boddaert) - The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey and are opportunistic hunters.
Birds- Black Kite Milvus migrans (Boddaert)
Birds- Barn Owl Tyto Alba (Scopoli) - The Barn Owl Tyto Alba (Scopoli) is one of the most widespread of all birds, found almost everywhere in the world except polar and desert regions.
Birds- Barn Owl Tyto Alba (Scopoli)
Birds- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) - The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) often accompany cattle or other large mammals.
Birds- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Birds- Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) - The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), also called the white scavenger vulture or Pharaoh’s chicken, is a small old world vulture and the only member of the qenus Neophron.
Birds- Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
Birds- Eurasian Stone Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) - The Eurasian stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) is a fairly large wader with a strong yellow and black beak, large yellow eyes and prefers dry open habitats.
Birds- Eurasian Stone Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus)
Birds- Sarus Crane Grus Antigone - The tallest of the flying birds, Sarus Crane in India considered symbols of marital fidelity, believed to mate for life and pine the loss of their mates even to point of starving to death.
Birds- Sarus Crane Grus Antigone
Birds- Shikra Accipiter badius (Gmelin) - The shikra is a small raptor, has short rounded wings and a narrow long tail, males have a red iris while the females have yellowish orange iris.
Birds- Shikra Accipiter badius (Gmelin)
Birds- Whitebreasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis - The white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) is a brilliant turquoise-blue kingfisher with deep chocolate-brown head and a long, heavy, pointed red bill.
Birds- Whitebreasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
Clouds- Sky with Floating Clouds. - Beautiful Floating Clouds over the snow covered Mountain Peaks.
Clouds- Sky with Floating Clouds.
Culture- Aghori Sadhu, Uttar Pradesh (India). - The Aghori Sadhu's engage in post-mortem rituals and use bones from human corpses for crafting skull bowls.
Culture- Aghori Sadhu, Uttar Pradesh (India).
Culture- Naga Sadhu
Culture- Naga Sadhu's (India)
Fairs- Baneshwar Tribal Fair - Baneshwar fair is a popular tribal religious fair with simple and traditional rituals, held at Baneshwar in Dungarpur, Rajasthan India.
Fairs- Baneshwar Tribal Fair
Fairs- Nagaur Cattle Fair (Rajasthan) - Nagaur Cattle Fair or Ramdeoji Cattle Fair is the second largest cattle fair in India, held every year in the month of Jan-Feb in Nagaur district of Rajasthan.
Fairs- Nagaur Cattle Fair (Rajasthan)
Fairs- Pushkar Fair (Rajasthan) - The Pushkar fair held in Rajasthan is one of the world’s largest camel fairs. According to legend, Hindu God Brahma sprung up the Pushkar Lake, thus numerous people swim in its sacred water.
Fairs- Pushkar Fair (Rajasthan)
Festivals- Durga Puja Festival - Durga Puja festival marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon Mahishasura marking the triumph of Good over Evil.
Festivals- Durga Puja Festival
Festivals- Holi and Elephant Festival (Jaipur) - Holi and Elephant Festival is celebrated in Jaipur,Rajasthan during the Hindu month of Phagun (March), by singing special songs called “Faag”, which celebrate the triumph of good over evil and the onset of spring.
Festivals- Holi and Elephant Festival (Jaipur)
Festivals- Jagannath Rath Yatra (Odisha) - The Jagannath rath yatra or chariot festival marks the travel of deities of Jagannath, Balbhadra and Shubhadra (Krishna, Balaram and Shubhadra) from Jagannath temple to nearby Gundicha temple at Puri, Odisha, India.
Festivals- Jagannath Rath Yatra (Odisha)
Festivals- Jaisalmer Desert Festival (India) - Rajasthani folk performers exhibit their traditional skills at Jaisalmer Desert Festival.
Festivals- Jaisalmer Desert Festival (India)
Festivals- Lathmaar Holi of Barsana (India) - Lath maar Holi is a local celebration of Hindu festival of colors Holi. According to Hindu Mythology Lord Krishna visited his beloved Radha’s village Barsana on this day to play Holi.
Festivals- Lathmaar Holi of Barsana (India)
Flowers- Poppy Flowers (Papaver oideae) - One species of poppy flowering plant Papaver somniferum, produces seeds which contains medicinal alkaloids such as morphine.
Flowers- Poppy Flowers (Papaver oideae)
Insects- Caterpillar - Caterpillars are herbivorous in food habit, feed on other animal products, they are among the most serious of agricultural pests and are valued as sources of silk.
Insects- Caterpillar
Insects- Indian Painted Grasshopper - The Poekilocerus pictus is a large brightly colored grasshopper from India, feeds on the poisonous plant Calotropis gigante or Giant Milkweed.
Insects- Indian Painted Grasshopper
Insects- Praying Mantis - Mantises is an order of insects that contains over 2,400 species worldwide have two grasping, spiked forelegs in which prey items are caught and held securely.
Insects- Praying Mantis
Monuments- Agrasen ki Baoli or Stepwell, New Delhi - 5000 years old Historic "Agrasen Ki Baoli" situated at Hailey Road near Connaught Place, New Delhi, India.
Monuments- Agrasen ki Baoli or Stepwell, New Delhi
Monuments- Palaces and Temples of Orchha - Orchha was established by Maharaja Rudra Pratap Singh in Bundelkhand region 15 km from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh in 1501.
Monuments- Palaces and Temples of Orchha
Monuments- Qutab Minar (New Delhi) - Qutab Minar is the 2nd tallest minar (73 metres) in India originally an early Islamic Monument inscribed with Arabic inscriptions, located in Mehrauli, New Delhi, India.
Monuments- Qutab Minar (New Delhi)
Monuments- Taj Mahal, Agra (India) - Taj Mahal is "The Jewel of Muslim Art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the World's Heritage"
Monuments- Taj Mahal, Agra (India)
Monuments: Sun Temple Konark (Orissa) - Konark Sun Temple is one of the grandest Temple of India at Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
Monuments: Sun Temple Konark (Orissa)
Mountains- Indian Mountain Peaks - The Heavenly beauty of snow covered Indian mountain peaks !!!!!!
Mountains- Indian Mountain Peaks
Religion- Dargah Sharif, Ajmer, Rajasthan (India) - Dargah sharif is the shrine of sufi saint Moiuddin Chisti where his grave is located in the city of Ajmer, Rajasthan. He was a revered saint among both Muslims and Hindus.
Religion- Dargah Sharif, Ajmer, Rajasthan (India)
Religion- Tungnath Temple, Uttarakhand (India) - Tungnath (Literal meaning: Lord of the Peaks) is the highest Shiva temple in the World lies in Tungnath range in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, believed to be 5000 years old built by Pandavas the heroes of the Mahabharata epic.
Religion- Tungnath Temple, Uttarakhand (India)
Reptiles- Oriental Garden Lizard - The oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor) is an agamid lizard found in Asia and the male gets a bright red throat in the breeding season.
Reptiles- Oriental Garden Lizard
Travel- Gangotri (Uttarakhand) - Gangotri in Uttarkhand, holds great importance amongst Hindus According to myths and legends this was the place where Lord Shiva received Ganga in his matted locks.
Travel- Gangotri (Uttarakhand)
Travel- Nainital (Uttarakhand) - Nainital is a popular hill station in Uttarakhand (India) named after the Goddess Naina Devi also known as the “Gateway to Kumaon Himalayas”.
Travel- Nainital (Uttarakhand)
Travel- Varanasi the City of Light (India) - Varanasi is the second oldest city in the world, it is one of the seven Sacred Cities of Hinduism famous for its Ghats, people come here to die in the hope of breaking out of the cycle of karma and rebirth.
Travel- Varanasi the City of Light (India)
Wildlife- Gray or Common Indian Langur (India) - Gray or common Indian langur are large and fairly terrestrial, inhabiting forest, open lightly wooded habitats and urban areas on the Indian subcontinent.
Wildlife- Gray or Common Indian Langur (India)
Wildlife- Indian Fruit Bat (Petrous giganteus) - The Indian flying fox or the greater Indian fruit bat is a species of flying fox in the Pteropodidae family. They lick nectar from flowers and eat ripe fruits and expel waste that pollinates and disperse seeds.
Wildlife- Indian Fruit Bat (Petrous giganteus)
Wildlife- Royal Bengal Tiger - The Royal Bengal Tiger is the National Animal of India is an endangered species. It has a reddish orange coat with narrow black or brown stripes. Its food includes medium to large prey such as wild boar, deer and antelope etc.
Wildlife- Royal Bengal Tiger
Wildlife- The Himalayan Marmots, J & K (India) - The Himalayan Marmots (Marmota Himalayan) are large ground squirrels with dark chocolate-brown coat belonging to the Rodent family.
Wildlife- The Himalayan Marmots, J & K (India)
Wildlife- White Tiger (Panthera Tigris) - White tiger is a pigmentation variant of the Bengal Tiger, reported in the wild in Madhya Pradesh, Assam and West Bengal. Such a tiger has the black stripes typical of the Bengal Tiger, but carries a white or near-white coat.
Wildlife- White Tiger (Panthera Tigris)